“For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”  John 6:40

 It is not uncommon to hear people lament, “I just wish I knew what God’s will for my life is.”  For some this question seems to plague every aspect of their life and every move they make, or don’t make. 

But in our text, Jesus clearly tells us what God’s will for us is, “that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life.”  The problem with the question of “what’s God’s will for my life” is, that it places the emphasis on me and my life.  I want God to reveal His will to me, and I want it done now. 

 But God has revealed His will for us in Jesus Christ.  His will is that we look only to His Son, and not to ourselves or anyone or anything else, for eternal life.   Our faith is not to be placed in ourselves, our experience, our emotions, our reason; instead Jesus is to be the sole content of our faith.  The content of that Christian faith which proclaims, “that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” (John 3:16) 

 God’s will is that our hearts and our eyes would be fixed on Jesus at all times.  Looking at Him, hanging on the cross and dying for my sins, and believing that through His substitutionary death in my place that I have forgiveness of sins, means that I don’t have to worry about God’s will for me.  He has, and He is, working His will in my life.  He is keeping me in Christ, so that Christ may raise me up on the last day to be with Him forever.  Thy will be done. 

 Gracious and merciful God, please do not let me get so tangled up in my questions that I fail to see Your Answer: Jesus Christ and what He has done for me.  Amen.