Understanding God's Will (UGW) Intro Part 2
I think the first thing we need to do when we talk about God’s Will is to define it. When we say, “God’s Will,” I think there are actually three different things we are referring to: God’s desires, God’s plans, and what actually happens. If you said, “It’s God’s Will that I move to New York,” it could be that you think it’s simply what God desires for you, what He wants you to do ... or that it's the one path He preplanned for you and it was your job to find "the path," the next step He planned for you ... or that since you moved to New York (or are going to) then it must have been "God’s Will" because everything that happens is "God's Will" and has been planned by and caused by Him (Calvinists would fall into this camp). I think it causes a lot of confusion when we lump them all together as “God’s Will,” because they are all different things. And they all bring different questions to the table. 1. Such as if you say it's what God d...