Found this post I did 2 years ago and never submitted, decided to now:
I got into a discussion about God's will with some friends of mine a couple of weeks ago. We were wondering if people sometimes use it to do what they really want to do. Interesting question. It may be judging, but I've seen people claim to do things that was God's will, and then they decide later it wasn't the right thing to do. Is it that hard to discover what God's will is for our lives? Does our will/desires overshadow that too much to find out what it is sometimes?
Some years ago, we had a pastor and wife at my church who I just loved to death. They were awesome, the best I had ever had. April is pastoral voting for us, and they did a 2-year vote. The pastor and his wife prayed about it, and accepted the vote, and said they felt God wanted them to stay two more years. Awesome. Two months later in June, we had our yearly conference - business stuff for our denomination. My pastor and his wife were asked to take a job overseeing several small churches that would require them not pastoring ours. They accepted it. I never understood it - and still don't. How could they have known it was God's will in April to stay two more years at our church, and 2 months later say they were leaving?
There are countless stories of Christian couples who have dated for a few years, and some have even been engaged when one of them suddenly feels it isn't God's will. Should that have not been covered before they got engaged? Before they dated for that amount of time?
Is everything done in the name of God's will actually His will, or is it a cover-up/excuse for us to do what we want to do?
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