How Can We Know God’s Will For Our Lives?

My daughter is a married 32 year old with three children. I was talking to her today and she was in tears bacause she very much wants to do something here on earth for the Lord. What can I tell her?

Q. My daughter is a married 32 year old with three children. I was talking to her today and she was in tears because she very much wants to do something here on earth for the Lord. She says that all she does is raise her children and do housework.

I told her that the Bible says that even if you give a cup of water in His name, there is a reward, and that not all of us have big ministries. She said she doesn’t want a big ministry, but just wants to do something more than she is doing now.

What more can I tell her? Isn’t raising up children in the way they should go a big thing in God’s eyes? Or is it something he expects mothers and fathers to do? I just recently found your website and am reading it with a hunger for all the knowledge you have of these end times we are in and more about our Lord Jesus. Thank you so much and God bless you.

A. Many Christians lament that their lives seem to them to be void of any meaningful service to the Lord.

To those who seek greater involvement, Paul offers this advice. “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Romans 12:1-2)

To me this means that through prayer we offer every aspect of our lives to God, asking Him to do with us as He desires. Then through the study of His Word we divest our selves of our worldly attitudes and opinions about what we’d like to do for Him and take on the heart of a servant, willing to do whatever He asks.

Finally I’ve found the advice of Henry Blackaby (author of Experiencing God) to be the best yet. “Don’t sit there asking God what He wants you to do. Look around you for a place where He’s obviously working, and when you find one jump in and start helping.”