God's Will

I had a conversation with a friend today concerning God's will. Both of referenced a book that I can't remember nor can I remember the name of the author. The premise of the book is that God is not concerned with you doing His will, but He is concerned with the type of person that you are. Contemporary Christians often construe God's will in a pagan matter when they think that they have to seek and pray for God's will. God has already revealed His will to us - we already know the type of person that God wants us to be. So when we make decisions, we can ask ourselves if a person of God would do this, but we don't have to pray for God's will. This is similar to the story of the Rich man and Lazarus in Luke, the rich man wants to go back and share the gospel with his family and God asks him, why will they listen to you if they have already ignored the prophets and Moses. This is similar to us with God's will, why will God tell us what His will is - or, to put it differently, why does God NEED to tell us His will - when He has already revealed it to us in the Bible. We know the kind of people that God's wants us to be, why do we need to ask Him again. We need to get busy living lives that bring glory to God, and when decisions arise we will make decisions based upon what brings glory to God

We know what we are supposed to do - sometimes we don't want to do what we are supposed to do so we avoid it with the pretense of seeking God's will.