Rob Crickett: Four Steps in Doing The Will Of God - Part 3 - Your Performance Is Fully Reviewed

STEP 3: YOUR PERFORMANCE IS FULLY REVIEWED

Having brought your will of God project safely to its completion, you then find that God arranges time for you to reflect upon it in a communion, or several instances of communion with Him.

What that means is that you reflect upon the various aspects of the project: the high points; the low points; the times when you needed to call on God to intervene with his supernatural power to keep the thing on the rails or to ward off some foreign predator; the times when you plain-sailed your way for a while and thought that it was just too easy; the times when you thought the whole project was totally down the drain in failure; the times when your pride raised its head or the times when you lost all power because you couldn’t stand in the office to which God had elevated you if the project was to be a success.

God brings the Holy Spirit power to you and it enters into your sincerity with such integrity and love and perspicacity that it initiates a deep and soul knowing sincerity within you. It is with this superbly all-knowing “eye of God” that you review the entire project; and your own part in it; God’s part in it; and the part of any other humans or divine beings as well.

Your heavenly Father is first and foremost interested in spawning life on this world and then raising up those children into His will and character.

Therefore, every decision you make counts and is valid to Him. How you navigated your way through that will of God exercise or project or commitment is something that He is vitally interested in. He can be playful, sincere, loving and a thousand other things, but He is always first and foremost interested in your having all the life that you can embrace. And that means setting you things to accomplish and then reviewing your accomplishments with you: forgiving your mistakes and helping you to forgive others; strengthening your weaknesses; enlightening your blindnesses; enlivening your slothfulness; and building up courage where there was unhelpful timidity.

It is the Holy Spirit power that enters into your mind-to-mind communion at a heart level that lets the will of God now be turned upon yourself so that it can really inspect you. How well did you do? Where were your bad points? Where were your good points?

After you have gone through the process of planning with God and commencing that plan after you receive His vision in your heart for its outcome, managing the plan through to its completion, and then reviewing everything of significance that went on during the plan’s implementation, you increasingly start to be able to plan, action and reflect on the will of God more and more easily, and for more and more complex situations. Your whole life soon turns to being a passion to be exclusively about the Father’s will. One of the measures of the efficacy of the doing of the will of God is the peace of Jesus that you enjoy.

The peace of Jesus is that very peace which filled his own soul when he himself lived the human life in the flesh and on this very world.  It is the joy and satisfaction of a God-knowing person who has achieved the triumph of learning fully how to do the will of God while living the mortal life in the flesh. It is founded on an absolute human faith in the actuality of the divine Father’s wise and sympathetic overcare.

Even when we have sorrows, we enjoy the comfort of that confidence which ever empowers us to proceed with our individual life purpose in the full assurance that we are achieving the Father’s will. There is no greater personal satisfaction than that. I would be so bold as to say that the assurance of doing the Father’s will is in fact the primary and root satisfaction, and a deeper root of satisfaction will never be found in all eternity and all infinity of experience and heavenly reality.

I am a living witness to the truth of the peace of Jesus being this joy and satisfaction. That is so totally true in my own experience, and I am forever grateful to my heavenly Father and to Jesus for showing the way to that most sublime achievement. But if this is not yet true for you dear reader, then pray with me that it shall too be yours as it is already mine. Pray now, simply saying,

“Father, I will have the peace and joy of Jesus that comes to me through the satisfaction of achieving the triumph of learning fully how to do the will of God—while I am living this life in the flesh. Thank you Father for making this real in my life.”

Now wait on God, quietly. God your own heavenly Father will bless your heart’s desire by touching it.

Once it has been touched by God, it is a done deal. It is then a fact that is written in heaven in His will and it will inevitably manifest here on earth in your very life.

(This article is continued in part 4 of this series)