We have been hearing this concept of God’s guidance since birth. Isn’t it? People say that God will guide in our life and most of the times what happens is that the guidance we get in our life would mostly be from our elders; parents, church elders, relatives and so on. We would be brainwashed to accept that whatever they say is God’s Will and so, God is guiding us through them.
Is it biblical?
Is that the way God guides us?
No. God is always personal. If He wants to guide us, He says that He will do so with His eye.
Psalm 32:8 (NKJV)
8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.
To my understanding, it feels so personal that God will give all the instructions to me and to me alone. He will not give the instruction to someone else and ask them to deliver the instruction to me as if He does not know my address.
When He says that He will guide us with His own eye, How does He do it?
Does He speak in audible voices like human beings? Because, this topic has been one of the fascinating sermons throughout the world. I do believe that God can do it. But, is that the usual way?
Its simple (if you have read my article God’ Will).
He guides us by giving ideas in our sixth sense to be executed by us and moreover, He promises us that He will help in execution. Holy Spirit empowers us. When we follow His guidance, it will certainly lead us to success and hence, a blessed life. But, when most of the times God gives ideas, it would be very difficult to comprehend and so, we are too afraid to execute. That’s why The Bible repeatedly says “Do not be afraid”. When He guides us, most of the times, He does not show us the end of the path. He guides us step by step. Trust and just go by His ideas in sixth sense. When you reach the destination, you will realize and appreciate the way God lead you throughout. He purposely does guide us step by step for two reasons: 1) God wants us to trust Him completely
Proverbs 3:5 (NKJV)
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;
2) Even if He says that this is the way that we should go to reach the desired destination, we will not go in that way because it would be entirely different from what we do usually; not the usual way; always contrary to the way we think that this is the way. But, that is the way without sweat; without danger; that is the way which will always take us to the top; but requires lot of patience.
People have taken the words “lean not on your own understanding” and have gone to the extreme to say that we should not use our sixth sense; logical reasoning.
But, it simply means that we should not use our logical reasoning in the way He guides us. It does not mean that we should not use our logical reasoning at all ! Anyway, He only gives us ideas. We only have to execute using our logical reasoning !!!
Just think of this example. You wanted to visit Niagara Falls and you have started driving your car from Texas City which is 1546 miles (Fastest route according to Google Maps). You can switch on Google Map app in your mobile and get the driving directions throughout the route until it says “You have reached your destination”. But, who was driving all along ? Google’s Larry Page? Don’t you think that we need to use our sixth sense; logical reasoning to drive; to decide the speed; where to break for coffee? where to take rest on the way? and more importantly, how to drive safe !!!
You may read my article Why Tithe for better understanding on God’s guidance.
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To understand why God entrusted us with such an unique gift, sixth sense, we should know the power of sixth sense. In recent times, scientists are finding out that sixth sense is not a single entity. The concept of humans having Six Senses is attributed to Aristotle. With ever developing science, we are able to investigate deep inside the brain and so, scientists are trying to classify the senses differently. So, the capabilities of sixth sense would be many more. But, I would like to highlight one capability of sixth sense (for which I writing this article) ie., Innovation. Only humans can innovate things and hence, only humans have the capacity to make their life better everyday.
We all are familiar with a phrase “Eat to live; live to Eat”. Which one do you think is more appropriate for human beings? Live to eat? Thats how most of the people live on this earth. If you say that that is right, then what is the difference between animals and humans? If you choose, eat to live, then it makes sense that we should use our sixth sense to innovate and make our living better everyday.
When I say this, people jump in and say that not only God’s children innovate. Even, a non-believer is able to innovate. So, if you say that it is the God’s greatest and unique blessing, how come they are also able to do it. Of course, they will also be able to innovate. Because, this gift was given to Adam and Eve which means to the whole mankind. This leads to a question “Then, where is the difference?” I had already dealt with in another article in this site. People who do not believe Jesus also use their sixth sense for their success and they do become successful. But, the success what God promises is without sweat, at ease and moreover, God keeps giving new ideas when you give tithe. Then, the success would be like “Icing or frosting on the cake”, a “Wow factor”.
Even when God wants to bless us, he gives us just ideas not dollars !!!
You may read my articles on God's Will and Why Tithe for better understanding.