Are We Abusing the Statement "It's God Will" For Our Convenience?
What does God's will mean? God indeed is in control, He allows and He permits. God's will or decree has His sovereign will - where He allows and disallows and God's will or command. You cannot really just keep misusing God's will just as an answer towards everything. If we define will, it's God's desire or wish, choice or determination. He Himself has His will which is true, it's God's will. However we are to be careful that such a statement is not misused and abused.
In what way can we end up making "It's God's will." as a misused and abused statement? It reminded me of someone who used to be a Roman Catholic but now he's a saved man, who frequently abused the statement when he wasn't saved yet. While it's true that it's God's will, however it can become a very lazy excuse. You do not write "Jesus is the answer" to every question in an exam. God willed the laws of nature which includes scientific and mathematical thought. True it's God's will that the sun rises in the East and sets down from the West. God arranged it. However it's not enough to keep saying, "It's God's will." You have to seek it and know it whenever and wherever possible.
Do you know why a lot of Christians and/or non-Christian Creationists were interested with science? They weren't lazy people who just said, "It's God's will." to everything that happened. If you try to read the works of Isaac Newton and other physicists who were Creationists, you don't have pages and pages that only writes, "Oh it's God's will." Instead, you might read a beautiful explanation like how Isaac Newton himself had written how he even came up with the equations in Calculus which would would just seem hodge podge until you realize its application from basic fields (business, economics) to higher fiends of its application (engineering). Science itself beautifully explains God's creation and the purpose of this and that. Although Louis Pasteur was not a Christian, he certainly developed the study of bacteriology because he believed in God's will in science.
The Bible calls in 1 Thessalonians 5:21 saying, "Test all things." In the modern language, you can also have the words "observe", "explore" and "prove". What does it mean to test all things? Don't just rely on a claim just because somebody said it's God's will. Is it really God's will that you steal from me? I can't say - maybe God allowed it to teach me a lesson but for the person to say it was God's will for him to steal, is in fact using the name of the LORD in vain. At the same time, it has become a lazy excuse for most people not to work at all because they misuse and abuse the statement "It's God's will." or "God's will be done." without realizing, they have to work to be in God's will right? Hyper-Calvinists may also use the excuse not to go soulwinning never mind that traditional, moderate Calvinism calls you to search for the Elect of God! Traditional Calvinism called for doing God's work, John Calvin was a workaholic but Hyper-Calvinists are just to abuse the statement, "It's God's will." or "God's will be done." If you really believe, "It's God's will." then I really have to say, "Do God's will then!"
In what way can we end up making "It's God's will." as a misused and abused statement? It reminded me of someone who used to be a Roman Catholic but now he's a saved man, who frequently abused the statement when he wasn't saved yet. While it's true that it's God's will, however it can become a very lazy excuse. You do not write "Jesus is the answer" to every question in an exam. God willed the laws of nature which includes scientific and mathematical thought. True it's God's will that the sun rises in the East and sets down from the West. God arranged it. However it's not enough to keep saying, "It's God's will." You have to seek it and know it whenever and wherever possible.
Do you know why a lot of Christians and/or non-Christian Creationists were interested with science? They weren't lazy people who just said, "It's God's will." to everything that happened. If you try to read the works of Isaac Newton and other physicists who were Creationists, you don't have pages and pages that only writes, "Oh it's God's will." Instead, you might read a beautiful explanation like how Isaac Newton himself had written how he even came up with the equations in Calculus which would would just seem hodge podge until you realize its application from basic fields (business, economics) to higher fiends of its application (engineering). Science itself beautifully explains God's creation and the purpose of this and that. Although Louis Pasteur was not a Christian, he certainly developed the study of bacteriology because he believed in God's will in science.
The Bible calls in 1 Thessalonians 5:21 saying, "Test all things." In the modern language, you can also have the words "observe", "explore" and "prove". What does it mean to test all things? Don't just rely on a claim just because somebody said it's God's will. Is it really God's will that you steal from me? I can't say - maybe God allowed it to teach me a lesson but for the person to say it was God's will for him to steal, is in fact using the name of the LORD in vain. At the same time, it has become a lazy excuse for most people not to work at all because they misuse and abuse the statement "It's God's will." or "God's will be done." without realizing, they have to work to be in God's will right? Hyper-Calvinists may also use the excuse not to go soulwinning never mind that traditional, moderate Calvinism calls you to search for the Elect of God! Traditional Calvinism called for doing God's work, John Calvin was a workaholic but Hyper-Calvinists are just to abuse the statement, "It's God's will." or "God's will be done." If you really believe, "It's God's will." then I really have to say, "Do God's will then!"