Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivannis, and this is Dialin. I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving holiday.

In this episode, I'd like to walk through how we discern as Christ's followers the will of God for our lives and what that even means.

Let's dial in.

As Christians, we are pilgrims during our time on earth.

We are sojourners.

I like that term.

This world, if you're a Christian, is not our home.

Our citizenship is in heaven.

So the question that you may ask is, well, while I'm here on earth, how do I know which path to take, which plan to pursue, or which person to marry? Well, thankfully, our shepherd

doesn't lead us along a path of obscurity and ambiguity. The psalmist says that he leads and guides us

through this life until we reach our

eternal promised land.

You as a Christian might say, oh, I want to do the will of God.

I just don't know what his will is for me because there's no clear verse in the Bible about

whether you should marry Chad or Brad or Jenny or Judy. We end up making no decision

at all because we don't know what decision God wants for us and we look for fulfillment often

in every category and we've lost in a sense this pilgrim attitude. Now the hunt for God's will,

I think especially amongst younger people, has become an

accomplice for delaying growing up and getting on with our lives. Because our lives are

riddled with endless possibilities, we often don't know which possibility to pursue, and we think

that if we choose the wrong option, then the entire trajectory of our life will

be distorted and the compounded effect of that one decision will affect our grandchildren's

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