Oct 28 - God's will

Today's ODB is taken from Romans 8:18-28. It brought me to ponder on 2 teachings I learnt this Thursday and Friday.

In this past Thursday CGST class on "Suffering", Dr. Yeung continued to teach how we look at "suffering" from the books of wisdom - Ecclesiastes. God's will is niether our will, nor our desired will. It is HIS will. As our Creator, He has the right to design our lives as the way He intended. We, as His Creation, cannnot challenge His mighty design (or His will).

Then on Friday, at a special meeting where Pastor Rob Penner (former ECC pastor) taught about "Seven Deadly Sins", in the first sin- Pride, he pointed out a very sharp question : Does the question "what's God's plan for my life?" interest you more than the questions "what is God's plan?" Why so many of us are so bothered with knowing what's God's will in OUR lives, rather than just knowing God's overall will ?

Worth to give it some thoughts.

Ecc 3:11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.
12 So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can.
13 And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.

So to me, while it's often easy to say "God is good and all things work together for good in His will" (Romans 8:28), true meaning of these words could only be uttered in true obedience to God's will, no matter what it is.