Is this God’s will for my life?

How do you know if something is God’s will for you? How do you know whether or not you are on the right path? Is it something that God whispers to you, or is it just the peace you feel?

Knowing God’s will for your life requires understanding God himself. You have to look at how God reveals his will to people in the Bible. To know whether it is God’s will for your life, it is necessary to reflect on all the times that God has shown up in your life.

God shows up in different ways for us.

For me, God shows up by making things simple. When something’s meant to be, it’s simple.

My dream school or next job are always things I’ve carefully considered (made pros and cons lists, looked for red flags and green flags, etc). I’ve already thought about those things, and I know God cares about them because he presents the BEST option (usually one I’ve already considered, e.g., my top school choice or ideal job situation and pay, a scholarship) and it’s so easy. God moves things out of the way to make things happen.

As you enter new levels of your life, through growth, there will be new devils or bosses to defeat. Things will look different. Therefore, it might be difficult to compare how God has shown up in your past experiences with how he’ll show up in the future.

But rest assured, he will show up at the start, the same way he always does, and he’ll walk you through the process if you allow him to.

When you beat bosses, you get stronger, not weaker. After all, life’s like a video game.

Knowing God’s will for your life is really evident in how he’s already shown up for you. Ultimately, God always works things out for me in a positive way in the end, no matter how painful the process is. I believe he genuinely cares about the desires of my heart and yours too. He cares so much that if he knows it will glorify him, he’ll make it come to pass and use those desires. Most of the time, those desires are things he planted in you before you were born. Think about how God moves in your life to reveal the mystery of his intentions and trust that he’s a consistent God.

Don’t forget that God isn’t double-minded. What he says is true from start to end, and if it’s his will, it will ALWAYS come to pass. But when we allow counterfeit thoughts to enter, we can delay God’s will, since his will requires the utmost faith from us, too.

And faith looks like laughing in the face of the future, each day at a time, and living life with high expectations, not hopelessness or negative outcomes. Despite our emotions or current circumstances, faith requires the belief that good things are around the corner.

Faith says that if God told me so, then it is so, and I’m curious to see how things play out to make whatever has been said true. Don’t be a backseat driver. Let God do the driving while you watch and observe.