2 Ways You Can Make Your Will Align with God’s Will

Do you want God’s ways to be your ways? Do you want His precept to be your precepts Do you want His will to be your will? I think most of us would answer those questions, “Yes!” But life often competes for our will and our way. So, how do we align ourselves to God’s will? Psalm 119:25-32 gives us 2 ways.

By humbling ourselves (vs. 25-27). The psalmist is saying, “God, take a look at my ways and expose them. And I will adjust where I need to adjust, repent where I need to repent, learn where I need to learn.” That is why he says, “Teach me Your will”, which requires humility. The psalmist is not demanding that God accept his ways; he is asking God to take a look at them so as to alter whatever needs to be altered. He wants to be more than acquainted with God’s will; he wants God’s will to equal his own. He is humbling himself to God’s Word. One of Jonathan Edwards resolutions was “Resolved to exercise myself in this all my life long, with the greatest openness to declare my ways to God, and lay open my soul to him – all my sins, temptations, difficulties, sorrows, fears, hopes, desires, and everything, and every circumstance.” Perhaps he got that from a mediation on this Psalm, but he captures what the psalmist is writing.

By seeing our pain as sanctifying (vs. 28-32). God doesn’t waste pain. He brings it about to teach us that He is enough for our needs. As he learns to trust God in the midst of his pain, his heart grows. The more you embrace God’s Word and direct your life by it, the stronger your heart becomes and the deeper your faith will be. To perceive our pain as sanctifying requires the humility that the psalmist models in vs. 25-27.

God’s will can be discovered when we acknowledge that our will is inferior (Luke 22:42-44) and when we see His precious promises of our pains being sanctifying (Rom 8:28).