Where are you going?

Well, life is full of many different directions and pathways, most of which lead us in a sense of trying to figure out what God has planned for us. My life has brought me to a point where my pathway isn't something I can see over the horizon. I cannot tell what tomorrow will bring. So I thought I would write a blog post about the will of God.
From time to time, people mention about things that God has planned for them and a desire and longing to know the future that they are attempting to achieve. People will seek out this plan and try to derive what God has in store for them. I am going to start with my current standings and I suggest you start with yours as well. The only thing I know for sure about God's plan for my life is that his plan has me where I am, right now. Now some may say, "well your sin lead you here and there" which I will only respond with "true". God works all things out for the good, for those who love him and are called according to his purpose. Now my stance right now is once again unemployed, trying to find out what job would fit my personality and pay my bills. Now this has lead to all sorts of thinking in the last two years, some of continuing my education, some of being a pastor or minister, some of being a teacher, mentor, or all sorts of other things. Now I don't know what God's got for me, these are just some of the ideas that have came up along the way.
So here I sit with an urge that I must fight. I try to seek out the hidden will of God, the will he has not shown me. If God desired me to be in one of those positions right now, his glorious power would place me there, but I am here. This is not to say don't aspire to do things but keep in mind "Lord willing" when you pursue anything. God may not be placing you where you think you are going. How many of us planned our lives out to find out that this is not how it rolled out? I spent years learning about computers and spent the last year cleaning carpets. To say the least, life wasn't going as planned.
Now with this huge desire to seek what God hasn't shown us yet, we must learn to change our focus of the hidden will of God to something more important, the revealed will of God. I am here, don't need to know my future or what I should pursue. I do however need to pursue what God's word tells me I should pursue.
We are to pursue Christ, pursue his word, and pursue his kingdom. We do this by relying on God's grace to change our hearts so that we can be different from the world, pursuing holiness. I might not be told to be a doctor, be a priest, or something else, but I am told to love my neighbor, worship God and seek to do what is right. Now I am not going to be able to follow this perfectly in my journey. So then I will have to then start back at the basics: Relying on God's grace to change my heart. I pray you take this to heart my friends. You don't know the future, everything you say and do is relent on God willing you to do it.
I close with this thought. Christ says, "who by worrying..." we know God will put us where he desires us to be, can we then build on that foundation in faith and belief that he will provide and so we shall continue in our duties as Christians to spread the Gospel, do what is right, and Love our God.
I always think of Paul's statement "Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?(Rom 7:24)" and thank God that the answer to that is Jesus. He is the one that will take all our sins, even this sin of attempting to divine the future of God's hidden will.
Thanks be to God who is able to keep us and sanctify such a wretched man as myself. Amen.