Like you aren’t accomplishing anything? I desperately want to do God’s will and follow his plan for me. I have been praying about it for some time. But as I am waiting for a decision, I feel like I am accomplishing nothing. I am tired of just sitting around, going to school/work, and repeating. I feel like I should be doing something to make a difference in the world. I want to do what I can to obtain salvation and help others as well, but I don’t think I am doing that right now.
Any advice would be helpful.
I can think of several responses.
For one thing, God might just be testing your patience. Moses stuffed around in the desert for 40 years before God called him. He probably thought he was all washed up, and that he’d spend the rest of his days under a baking sun looking after a bunch of sheep. You can visualise Moses talking to the sheep - "You know I used to be an Egyptian Prince, on first name terms with Pharaoh, and now all I get to talk to is you! You have no idea how boring ‘Bah’ gets when you’ve heard it for the milionth time. Their response? “Ba…a…ah”, which is sheep for “So what? We’ve heard your whining a million times ourselves.”
I remember asking this question myself when I was a new Christian. One of the pastor’s sons replied, “You might be waiting a very long time. Moses had to wait till he was 80 before he got started.”
I remember thinking to myself, “Thanks a lot! That’s a real help!” I was probably about 30 at the time.
Even Christ had to wait 30 years or thereabouts before He really started His ministry. We don’t know what he might have been doing prior to that other than being a three-day child wonder in the temple, one of these kids who hit the public eye early on and then just seem to fade into oblivion. Maybe He was just making tall tables and yoke for oxen or lower counters for small shop keepers, but His ministry didn’t really begin till His mother nagged him about helping out an embarrassed host at a wedding.
He may be waiting for you to make a move towards helping others - putting in some time with a voluntary organisation for example, rather than worrying about “yourself”.
He might want you to finish your studies first (if you’re at school or college), before launching out on your world beating Catholic revival tent meetings.
Maybe He’s already told you, but you don’'t want to do whatever it is as you’d rather be doing something else.
But if He hasn’t made it clear, just keep doing what you’re doing until He does. In the meantime helping somebody else is always a good way to start.
