It can feel like God is far from our lives. Sometimes it feels like we’re just living life on our own. We can find ourselves asking, “I thought that Christianity was a relationship… If so, then what is God doing in my life?”
It can feel lonely. It can feel disorienting.
In the maturing of my life, I realized that the way I thought that God was moving in my life was different than the way he actually was.
And in the process, I’ve learned to ask three critical questions to help illuminate me in what God is doing.
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Why do these three questions work?
These questions always point me to the revelation of what God is doing in my life for a couple of reasons
- It works because, more often than not, God is doing at least one of these things very prominently.
- To me, that forms the summary of what God is doing in various parts of the Bible with different people. Almost in every story in the Bible you can see God doing one of these three things. God wasn’t always using David, but he was sometimes shaping him. God wasn’t always blessing Abraham but he was sometimes using him.
If you feel lost, chances are, you may be missing the answer to one of these questions.
I recommend spending some time to reflect and journal on them.
Ask These 3 Questions to Know What God is Doing In Your life
I’ve learned to ask three critical questions to help me get gauge what God is doing.
If you take the time to reflect on at least one of them, I guarantee you will start seeing the hand of God come out of the shadow and into the light.
Here are the three questions:
Question 1: “How is God GROWING me?”
Eph 2 says that we are his masterpiece. What it means is that he is doing something inside of us. Like a pottery piece, he is shaping us, moving us, chiseling us. He is doing this to make us in the image of Jesus.
In every season, God is trying to shape us into his likeness in a particular way. He is making us more holy, more loving, more gracious, etc.
Think of a life circumstance that you’re going through right now that is testing your character. More likely than not, God is behind it, using the circumstances in your life to grow you.
Question 2: “How is God BLESSING me?”
While God is shaping us, we are not just projects! We are his beloved children. And in every season, there is a blessing that is unique to this season.
Some seasons, it’s been the gift of having more time with certain people in my life. Sometimes it’s a financial blessing. Sometimes it is a material blessing.
Ask yourself: How is God blessing me this season?
Think of things you can be thankful for, and assuredly you will find God behind it.
Question 3: “How is God USING me?”
Lastly, I find that God always uses us in some shape or form.
After all, we are called to be salt and light in the world (Matthew 5). Every season God affords specific people he’s placed in our lives for us to bless in the name of Jesus. It can be a word, a sermon, or an act of generosity.
The thing is–often, you’ll never be able to interact with those people outside of this season. Think of the school friends you had that you never get to see anymore. Don’t waste this season! If there’s a parent, a workmate, or friend he is affording special time to bless and minister to, seize it. Think of how God might want to use you this season.
Conclusion
In every season God is doing something in our lives. And while it can feel lost amid all the noise, asking these questions
If you try it, let me know which question helps you connect with what God is doing this season!
You were made for greatness,
Phil
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Hi,
this is my second time trying to write this comment.
I think that God is currently growing me more than anything, whilst presenting me with great opportunities that are a bit scary to seize (I have to get out of my comfort zone).
God has also blessed me.
A few days ago me and my mother were talking about these certain licorice chocolates we really enjoyed. Now these licorice chocolates are on the pricey side. But despite this I was thinking about buying my mother a pack as for a gift, I even researched a few things about them.
Then yesterday we had guest coming over, and I kid you not they came with a big basket filled with goodies, money gifts for me and my two sisters AND those licorice chocolates me and my mom had been talking about a few days ago or so (these ones were from a different brand, but honestly I don’t even really remember the OG’s taste and I love these ones).
Yesterday I didn’t even really regard any of these things as a blessing from God, I just kinda brushed over them as coincidences not really giving them much thought. But today God struck me with it. He literally gifted me with those yummy licorice chocolates I had been wanting without me having to do ANYTHING for them! (I think these ones may even be yummier than the original ones!!!)
Lately I had also been thinking about how nice it would be to recieve some gifts, because it’s so cute and surprising. Especially since Christmas is coming up and all the previous years the biggest thing for me on Christmas was probably the gifts, but now that I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour, I am trying to focus more on actually celebrating HIM instead of just ‘Christmas’. I had even thought about not asking for anything this year, to avoid sinning by perhaps celebrating a pagan tradition instead of Jesus Christ. So for God to give me a gift like this is so cute and just makes me feel very well cared for.
I have also been praying for God to use me, upon feeling guilty because I don’t directly share the Gospel to my family members and they need saving and so on. Basically I have been feeling like I am not doing enough nor well enough in what I do, do.
But I pray that I will no longer feel this way and that God will give me the words to fearlessly spread the Gospel as I ought to.
Please pray for me thank you, and thank you for writing these articles they are of a big help, may God bless and keep you and have his face shine brightly upon you and your loved ones. May He give you the desires of your heart and be with you. May the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you for ever and ever. And to God and our Father be all thanks, praise blessing, honor, glory and might for ever and ever, in Jesus’s name Amen.
Your article on ‘Sabbath was made for man’ has also been a huge help for me, I just have one problem, I find that no matter how many times and in what way I have tried fasting it just doesn’t seem to work. Looking back on all the times i have fasted or at least tried doing so, it just never really leaves me feeling like I got closer to God or like it benefited my faith and stuff. But Jesus says in the Gospels that we humans will fast after he leaves us, and he has left us, so now is the time that we will fast (not always of course, I understand that). But I just don’t really get when and how to fast. When I look at when people in the bible fasted from what I have read and heard it was usually when they were in a pickle and were asking God to help them or just making a plea. I have also tried doing the same with requesting different things throughout the fast, but yet still when I look back on them it seems like I was made for fasting, not fasting for me.
So how do I fast right? If you have a suggestion based on the bible (the truth) please let me know.
Thank you so much for hearing my cry, I needed and need someone to ask all ny Christian related questions to. Unfortunately I as of right now don’t feel like I have such a person, but I have been praying for one. Do I just keep on praying?