God doesn't always want to guide our lives as much as he wants to be our guide for life. In other words, he doesn't give us a print-out of Google maps with directions on the side telling us how to get to where he wants us to go; instead he gives us a compass. What a compass does is point us in the right direction, leaving it up to us to get there. Even the bible doesn't lay out directions--we have to try to decipher it's specific meanings and applications sometimes. I do believe though, that we all have God's calling written on our hearts, and it's only a matter of underlining and putting feet to the statement which God intends to be our guiding anthem. Let us allow God's magnetic pull to direct every decision of our lives.
"Living life on purpose means letting God's agenda and His heart become the guiding principle for all our decisions."
~Claude Hickman/Steven C Hawthorne/Todd Ahrend on "Following God on Mission" in "Kairos"
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