What is God’s will for my life?
It isn’t a hard and difficult nut to crack. It is a theological doctrine to discern and walk faithfully in… God’s sovereign, moral, permissive and redemptive will.
God’s will is not a puzzle to solve or a nut to crack—it is a person to trust. Scripture reveals not a hidden blueprint requiring anxious decoding, but a multifaceted expression of God’s character and purposes. The Bible shows us God’s will as sovereign decree, moral command, permissive allowance, and redemptive plan. This series explores those dimensions, not as abstractions, but as frameworks for faithful living.
What to Expect in This Series
The Bible speaks of God’s will in specific ways, yet despite the bible’s abundant content on this subject, modern readers often find themselves still stalled or confused. We ask, “What is God’s will for my life?” when Scripture distinguishes between what God decrees, what He commands, what He permits, and what He is accomplishing redemptively. This series examines each dimension as a distinct yet harmonious aspect of how God’s purposes unfold.
Each article in this series will…
- Examine the Biblical Foundation: Tracing how this aspect of God’s will appears across the storyline of Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation.
- Clarify Key Distinctions: Defining terms carefully and showing how each dimension relates to (and differs from) the others.
- Address Common Confusion: Confronting misunderstandings that lead to fatalism, passivity, or anxious striving.
- Provide Practical Wisdom: Offering biblical guidance for decision‑making, obedience, endurance in suffering, and confidence in God’s purposes.
Our Approach: Like the Bereans in Acts 17:11, we’ll search the Scriptures to understand what God Himself reveals about His will. We’re not offering philosophical speculation or pop‑psychology techniques, but submitting to the Bible’s own categories and listening for its pastoral wisdom.
Series Overview
Each entry explores one facet of God’s will, yet together they form a biblical theology that shapes obedience, anchors hope, and steadies faith:
- When Heaven’s Purpose Meets Earth: Understanding God’s Will Published first as a standalone article—a comprehensive survey of God’s Will, introducing the four dimensions (below) and their interplay.
- God’s Sovereign Will: The Decrees That Govern History—Exploring God’s eternal purposes, providence, and the comfort of knowing he “works all things according to the counsel of his will.”
- God’s Moral Will: The Commands That Shape Holy Living—Understanding God’s revealed standards, how to discern direction through Scripture, and the freedom of knowing what God requires.
- God’s Permissive Will: Freedom, Evil, and Providence—Wrestling honestly with how God permits what he doesn’t approve, and what this means for human responsibility and suffering.
- God’s Redemptive Will: The Purpose That Restores All Things—Tracing God’s long-arc plan to redeem creation and how even evil is bent toward restorative purposes.