Discerning God's Will in Order to Live All for God
That is a major difficulty: discernment.
Then, if one has discerned but later thinks one has made a mistake, how long does one stay in the mistake?
Does God desire a person to feel buried alive and suffocated, to have the kiss of death? Or does God expect the person to make a change.
These questions come to people frequently, in relationships, jobs, friendships, and living locations.
Prayer is one way to find answers, and waiting. Also, one can make attempts to try something different, or to at least make the attempt to try.
But it seems counter God's will to remain in negativity for a long period of time. If the negativity can be altered through a change, then it might be worth trying the change. If it is a huge change, then more is at stake. If it is after one has made one decision but made further realizations, then it might be best to make the change rather than stick it out much longer.
The answers are sometimes hard to discern. Trial and error help. Praying much before the Blessed Sacrament and praying before bed for answers, and promising to do as God wills, are helpful means to discerning God's will. Asking for advice from wise counsel, helps, too.
It takes much courage to do God's will, for sometimes it might be what we do not desire, or He may place us in circumstances that are suffocating. But it seems that God does not do that very often, not to suffocate us. It is our own thoughts and attitude sometimes that are suffocating, but sometimes it is just being in the wrong place, having made a mistake, and needing to make a change.
To live omnia pro Deo requires a willingness to die to self, to die in this world and to this world, and to accept being buried alive--or to accept much effort and hardship in making a change, even if one has made a tremendous mistake requiring losses in order to make the change.
Sometimes the losses are in accepting that God desires the seed to fall to the ground, be crushed, and to die in order to bring forth new life.
Then, if one has discerned but later thinks one has made a mistake, how long does one stay in the mistake?
Does God desire a person to feel buried alive and suffocated, to have the kiss of death? Or does God expect the person to make a change.
These questions come to people frequently, in relationships, jobs, friendships, and living locations.
Prayer is one way to find answers, and waiting. Also, one can make attempts to try something different, or to at least make the attempt to try.
But it seems counter God's will to remain in negativity for a long period of time. If the negativity can be altered through a change, then it might be worth trying the change. If it is a huge change, then more is at stake. If it is after one has made one decision but made further realizations, then it might be best to make the change rather than stick it out much longer.
The answers are sometimes hard to discern. Trial and error help. Praying much before the Blessed Sacrament and praying before bed for answers, and promising to do as God wills, are helpful means to discerning God's will. Asking for advice from wise counsel, helps, too.
It takes much courage to do God's will, for sometimes it might be what we do not desire, or He may place us in circumstances that are suffocating. But it seems that God does not do that very often, not to suffocate us. It is our own thoughts and attitude sometimes that are suffocating, but sometimes it is just being in the wrong place, having made a mistake, and needing to make a change.
To live omnia pro Deo requires a willingness to die to self, to die in this world and to this world, and to accept being buried alive--or to accept much effort and hardship in making a change, even if one has made a tremendous mistake requiring losses in order to make the change.
Sometimes the losses are in accepting that God desires the seed to fall to the ground, be crushed, and to die in order to bring forth new life.
posted by The Catholic Hermit | 5:49 PM
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