Why should I do everything according to HIS will?

Psalm 1

This one of the psalms that everyone knows by heart. In this psalm we see who the blessed people and the righteous people are, and how they live their life, and we also see what awaits the wicked.

“1.Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seats of scoffers;

2. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

3. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does he prospers.

4. The wicked are not so but  are like chaff that the wind drives away.

 

5. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, not sinners in the congregation of he righteous;

6. For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.”

Psalm 1

It all seems to make sense. But this time when I re-read it one of the verses jumped out at me--the second verse “But his delight is in the law of the LORD…”

When I encounter obstacles in my life, I pray to God for His help and for His guidance for me to choose the right way, and also that God’s will to be done. I want God’s will to be done in my life. But sometimes I don’t like God’s will, sometimes I just don’t understand it, but I know that God is God and He does everything according to His will, and then again I asked him to do according to His will so why do I get upset? It embarrassing and terrible but I confess God’s will and my own will and delight do not always fall in sync. I want something done a particular way but God’s plans are completely different from mine.

This verse says that the blessed man is he who’s delight and wishes fall in sync with God’s law. I understand it like this: the happiest man is he who’s wishes ARE God’s wished because he and the LORD are in sync. I will not need to make myself be humble and trouble my mind with “Why God?!” and finally to submit to God’s will, I will be able to do what I want because what I want will be the same thing that God wants, because I will study and meditate in God’s word.

We are all humans and every day we fight with temptations and desires of flesh/selfish thoughts/ and wrongdoings, we strive to be like “a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does he prospers.”

Nowhere in the Bible does it say that it’ll be easy to be Christians, to be followers of Christ, but with God’s help we will be able to conquer our sinful desires and if we endure till the end and still be faithful to Him we will be saved. We grow our spiritual self and we change to be more like Christ (If we ask God for help and truly want it).

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11

When we start to understand that God loves us and wants only the best for us, and does everything for us, then when we even do not understand the will of God, we are thankful to Him that He does according to His will and not ours.