Everyone desires to be in God’s will. Sometimes, we even talk about wanting to be in the perfect will of God.
But God’s perfect will might not look like what you think it should. We need to clear up what we mean by perfect. Otherwise, we could completely miss out on God’s will altogether because we’ll be too busy chasing daydreams.
Our idea of perfect is perfect to us.
A perfect day to you might mean everything is going the way you think it should go.
A perfect marriage to you might be one that’s easy and stress-free.
A perfect job to you might be one where you’re high on the leadership pyramid and banking loads of cash.
Those aren’t bad things, but they’re not necessarily perfect to God. That matters because what’s perfect to God is perfect for us. God’s will for you is to become everything He dreamed you to be so that you might glorify Him the way He deserves to be. And that doesn’t necessarily happen through easy circumstances or perfect conditions.
God’s will doesn’t have to be perfect to me to be perfect for me.
If you need proof of this, just take a brief glance at the Bible:
God’s will for Job wasn’t perfect to him. He lost everything. But it was perfect for him. It brought him to a whole new level of faith and positioned him for a greater blessing later in his life.
God’s will for Joseph wasn’t perfect to him. He landed in slavery and prison for over a decade. But it was perfect for him. Through him, God saved his family and an entire nation.
God’s will for Paul probably didn’t seem perfect to a lot of people. Few men have ever suffered so much for the gospel. But it was perfect for him. Few men have ever spread the gospel so vastly in their lifetime.
God’s will for Jesus didn’t seem perfect to His disciples. In the garden of Gethsemane, even He didn’t want it. But it was perfect for Him. He defeated and humiliated sin on the cross. Then conquered death in the resurrection. And thereby provided salvation to the whole world.
God’s will for you might not always seem perfect to you. But trust me, His will is perfect for you.
The job you hate right now might not seem perfect to you. But through it, God is perfectly developing your character, patience, and faithfulness.
That relationship you just lost might not seem like God’s perfect will to you. But the person God is clearing space for and has been preparing you for your entire life is perfect for you.
The disease you’re battling right now might not seem perfect to you. But God could use your pain as a platform for the gospel to reach countless people. And He’s putting you in the perfect position to comfort others.
That doesn’t make it easy. But it does make it meaningful. Purposeful. Worth it.
It makes it perfect for you.
