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Transcript 006D — How Do We Discern God's Will For Our Lives?
CALLER: Mr. Camping, if you're at a crossroad in your life, is there any way that you can know what the will of God is?
HC: The only statement of the will of God is the Bible. Now when you come to a crossroad, and you want to know whether to go this way or that way, the Bible will not ordinarily speak directly to the question. But it will give you a lot of information whereby you can evaluate which path to take. For example, if it were a crossroad involving marriage, the Bible says, "Don't be unequally yoked to an unbeliever." So that is one thing that has to be considered.
So whatever it is, we have the general rule, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness." Whatever you do, eating or drinking, do all to the glory of God. "Ye are My witnesses." Christ, as it were, is making His appeal through you. And so on, and so on. In other words, the more we know the Bible, the more we will be sensitive to the will of God. We will be able to look at each option, or each alternative, and select the one that will give us the best opportunity to live to God's glory.
Now let's assume that we have selected one path to follow, and maybe there's another path that looks almost equally right, but we select this one. Now if God shuts the door, in other words, we thought there was an opportunity to go that way, and yet God takes the opportunity away. We thought we were going to be able to go to school, but the money that was going to pay for it was not forthcoming. Or we started to take a certain course, thinking we ought to go into this kind of discipline of learning, and we find that our minds can't cope with it. And we begin to flunk that course. These are ways in which God closes the door, and then we have to look for another path that also accords with His will.