A basic Christian primer on sex, marriage and family life. Article 3 – How we know the will of God.
by Martin Davie:
In the previous article in this series we saw that we should live according to the will of God. This is because God, being God, is perfectly wise and perfectly good and his will is the expression of this fact. What he wills is always perfectly wise and perfectly good and therefore there is no good reason for us not to obey it, and every reason that we should.
In the case of other human beings there are two reasons why we may justifiably refuse to obey what they ask us to do. The first is because what they ask us to do is unwise (like trying to make a really important decision after insufficient sleep) and the second is because what they ask us to do is morally wrong (like stealing the funds of a cancer care charity). However, since God is perfectly wise and good there is never any justifiable reason for not doing what God asks us to do because what he asks will never be unwise and will never be morally wrong. This remains true even when we cannot see the reason why God is asking us to do (or not do) a particular thing. We need to trust that God knows what he is doing even when it doesn’t make sense to us, on the basis that God is wiser than we are and so has a much better grasp of the reality of the situation than we do.
This still leaves us with the issue of how we determine what God’s will is in any given situation. The answer is that while God can and does communicate with people directly through visions and prophecies this is not the normal means through which he makes his will known to us.
There are two ways that God normally communicates his will to us.
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