Vagueness

[sbriton]

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine

I LOVE THIS SIG QUOTE!!! Something new to ponder during my days.

Simon

 

[beckycmarie]

I LOVE THIS SIG QUOTE!!! Something new to ponder during my days.

Simon

Someone else on CAF replied to me with that quote once. I wish I could remember who it was - but I liked it so much I made it my sig line.

 

[MarieVeronica]

Dear Father, through The Holy Spirit and in the name of Your Son, may we live the circumstances of our own daily lives You have gifted us here as if Jesus were to live these precise same daily circumstances…Amen.

Beautiful Barb! Just beautiful. With your kind permission, I’d like to copy this one. God bless.

MV

 

[BarbaraTherese]

Beautiful Barb! Just beautiful. With your kind permission, I’d like to copy this one. God bless.

MV

… Go for it!..
Deo Gratius

dang71
Originally Posted by bpbasilphx forums.catholic-questions.org/images/buttons_cab/viewpost.gif
Mother Angelica once said, “If you want to know God’s will for you, look around you and see where you are now.”

Dang 71: this is a truly helpful quote, but there is the additional question of “where do i go from here?”. please forgive me if i misinterpret the question from ‘Awake’, but i think the question is about wanting to do exactly God’s will. if there are two or more choices open to us, how do we know which one is the “better” choice? how do we know which choice most conforms to God’s will?

God knows our hearts and He knows that we want to do His Perfect Will and ardently even though the knowledge of it He withholds from us…hence the ardent desire is blessed and delightful to Him and the fact that one’s unknowing of His Perfect Will accepted as a cross and suffering is also blessed by Him. Hence in the unknowing one is doubly blessed and shares in the Passion of Christ.

Further…it can be helpful to understand and grasp if we can that God’s Will is not like ours in that what I will therefore excludes other choices. It can be said that God’s Perfect Will is inclusive of a number of choices all of which are good and equal. “My Ways are not your ways and My Thoughts are not your thoughts”. God has gifted us with free will, which is a great gift indeed…and it does not only mean that we have the means to choose between right and wrong. It also means that we have the means to realize our true identity in Him through our choices and freedom of choosing, for in goodness of any kind and of any level, it is the work of The Holy Spirit. The meaning of this can be obscure to some, I hope you will grasp it.

Blessings and regards…Barb

 

[KingAlfred]

Why is God’s will for us so vague? If God had one course of action that he wanted us to take, wouldn’t he make it more clear? The methods that people commonly suggest to determine God’s will (pray and look for an answer, read the Bible, read spiritual literature, consult with a priest, have a discussion with a spiritual direction, etc.) all seem to be open to interpretation. I’m not asking for a booming voice from the sky telling me what to do, but simply a sure way of knowing what God’s will is.

The only answer to this question I can think of is that God clearly stated his moral guidelines for us, such as loving one’s neighbor and the 10 commandments. But the specifics about what we do with our life, who we form relationships with, where we work, and how we live, God leaves to us to decide as long as we are following his moral guidelines.

He has a plan for everyone, and fights to guide each one of us along our journey. The mysteries of ‘how’ and ‘why’ aren’t meant for us to solve. We must do our best, with what we have, staying on the right path, through good times and bad. Ours is a social faith. Therefore, we must live to serve others as best we can, in God’s name, building up the Kingdom, spiritually in the care of the Church. I don’t mean to preach. Much of my youth was lost to reckless rebellion. Perhaps only with the benefit of hindsight, can I utter these ‘lofty’ ideas. I know this is where I am now, spiritually, by the grace of the Lord Almighty.