We're talking about God's will, and I wonder how many of you, those of you that are Christians,

how many of you like sincerely want God's will for your life? Raise your hand. You can type

in the comment section, I want God's will for my life. I know you do. Because most of us as

Christians, we don't struggle with wanting God's will. We struggle with waiting for God's will.

Or we struggle with discerning God's will.

We want it, but we just don't really know what it is.

And what tends to happen, I've noticed,

with three decades of pastoring,

there's kind of a common thing that happens with Christians is

we have a decision to make. We know, should I go there? Should I do this? Should I do that?

And so we pray about it. And then we overthink every option. And we analyze every angle.

And we do a pros and a cons. And then pray and we still feel stuck because so many of us

deep down we're afraid we're going to miss God's will we're going to miss the perfect moment

we might make the wrong decision take the wrong job marry the wrong person and have the wrong

life and that's a lot of pressure for someone who can't figure out what they're going to do for

dinner.

And I get it.

And the thing is for so many of us, we don't realize that while we're chasing the perfect

answer for tomorrow,

we're often missing what God wants us to do today.

And that's why we talked about this principle last week that one of the biggest mistakes that so many of us make

when trying to discern the will of God is the big mistake we make is we

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