In general do you want to do God’s will?

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If you have a somewhat close relationship with God( You never miss mass on holy days, you pray morning and night, you bless your food etc.), will God’s call generally present itself as something you are excited about and want to do? Thank you!
 
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I think so. I know I am called to marriage as I am married. But I feel like I am always on the lookout for more things that God may be calling me to as a secondary thing. Service to the Church, helping the poor, etc. Sometimes I dive in and do it and sometimes I take time to pray about the bigger things. Sometimes I feel that God makes his will glaringly obvious and I just go along for the ride.
 
I really want to do the will of God but sometimes I have hard time discerning it. 🤔
 
In general yes.

If one chooses to participate in Mass every holy day of obligation, pray morning and night prayers, bless your food regularly, then yes, you tend to be excited about God’s call.

However, several who fulfill all of those objectives are obedient spouses and children. Those obedient to earthly authority on these same matters may not have the same excited response.
 
Yes, as St Alphonsus Liguori teaches, whoever has perfect conformity to God’s will “always obtains whatever he wishes”:

He that reposes in the Divine will, is like a man placed above the clouds: he sees the lightning, and hears the claps of thunder, and the raging of the tempest below, but he is not injured or disturbed by them. And how can he be ever disturbed, when whatever he desires always happens? He that desires only what pleases God, always obtains whatsoever he wishes, because all that happens to him, happens through the will of God. Salvian says, that Christians who are resigned, if they be in a low condition of life, wish to be in that state; if they be poor, they desire poverty; because they wish whatever God wills, and therefore they are always content. “Humiles sunt, hoc volunt, pauperes sunt, paupertate delectantur: itaque beati dicendisunt." If cold, or heat, or rain, or wind come on, he that is united to the will of God says: I wish for this cold, this heat, this rain, and this wind, because God wills them. If loss of property, persecution, sickness, or even death come upon him, he says: I wish for this loss, this persecution, this sickness; I even wish for death, when it comes, because God wills it. And how can a person who seeks to please God, enjoy greater happiness than that which arises from cheerfully embracing the cross which God sends him, and from the conviction that, in embracing it, he pleases God in the highest degree? So great was the joy which St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi used to feel at the bare mention of the will of God, that she would fall into an ecstacy. (St Alphonsus Liguori, Sunday Sermons)
 
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