Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

by Kevin DeYoung

It would have been very easy to say to people (because I’ve heard lines like it before): “I love being in Iowa. If it were up to me, I would stay here. It doesn’t make a lot of human sense for me to go. But as I’ve prayed, it’s been very clear to me that this is what the Lord wants. I’m not sure I even like it. But I feel very strongly that it’s God will for me to go to East Lansing.” That could have gotten people off my case, but it would have been unfair. It wasn’t God’s fault I was leaving. My wife and I prayed to God a lot about the decision, and I think it was a decision that pleased Him, just like He would have been pleased if we had stayed. But it was my decision. I was responsible for leaving. I chose. I decided. Yes, in the ultimate sense God already had it decided; that’s always true. But it would have been wrong for me to use God’s will as a way to remove my personal responsibility in the decision.