If you Google “Knowing God’s Will for my Life,” you will get 2,910,000 results in seconds. What I found amazing was that many of these so-called solutions began with “Walk with God.” Think about this, how can anyone ‘walk with God’ until they know God? How can they know God until they study God? How can we study God until we dive deeply into His written Word?
If we wish to sincerely know God’s Will for our lives, we need to first and foremost have an intimate relationship (communion/fellowship) with God. That can only come about through the study of God’s Holy Word.
TEXT/CONTEXT
v.17 – Wherefore be ye not unwise. He whose “delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates in it day and night,” (Psalm 1:2,) will triumph over every obstacle which Satan can oppose to his progress. Whence comes it that some wander, others fall, others strike against a rock, others go away,—but because we allow ourselves to be gradually blinded by Satan, and lose sight of the will of God, which we ought constantly to remember? And observe, that Paul defines wisdom to be, understanding what the will of the Lord is. “How shall a young man,” says David, “direct his way? By attending to thy word, O Lord.” (Ps. 119:9.) He speaks of youths, but it is the same wisdom which belongs to old men.
John Calvin and William Pringle, Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul to the Galatians and Ephesians (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2010), 314–315.
V. 17. Therefore, i. e. either because the days are evil; or, because ye are bound to walk as wise men. The latter mode of connection is to be preferred, because the reference is to the main idea of the preceding verses 15 and 16, and not to a subordinate clause. Be ye not, ἄφρονες, senseless, unthinking, trifling. Comp. Luke 11:40, “Ye fools (ye unthinking ones), did not he that made that which is without, make that which is within also;” also Luke 12:20; 1 Cor. 15:36; 2 Cor. 11:16, &c. In all these cases ἄφρων means one who does not make a right use of his understanding; who does not see things in their true light, or estimate them according to their relative importance. It is here opposed to συνιέντες. ‘Be ye not senseless, undiscriminating between what is true and false, right and wrong, important and unimportant, but understanding, i. e. discerning what the will of the Lord is.’ That is, seeing things as he sees them, and making his will or judgment the standard of yours, and the rule of your conduct. The will of the Lord is the will of Christ. That Lord here means Christ, is plain not only from the general usage of the New Testament, so often referred to, but also from the constant use of the word in this chapter as a designation of the Redeemer. Here again, therefore, the divinity of Christ is seen to be a practical doctrine entering into the daily religious life of the believer. His will is the rule of truth and duty.
Charles Hodge, A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians (New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1858), 301–302.
DEVOTION
“Do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is” (Ephesians 5:17).
God’s will is revealed in His Word.
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Pray for Grace to Direct, Quicken, Strengthen, and Assist you that you may Walk Wisely
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