What if I told you that there was a new app that could change your life? It’s free. Just go to the app store and download the “God’s Will” app.
Now, every morning, when you open the app, it finds your location, it finds today, and then does a satellite link to God. All within seconds. A map comes up on your screen with the little green dot and little red dot with a trail in between that represents your day. All you have to do is follow all instructions and you will be given God’s will—every moment, as you go.
No more wondering, wandering, stressing, blowing it, and having to ask forgiveness for getting off-track. Just like the Maps app, you simply do what it tells you, go where it says, and you arrive at God’s will.
As awesome and as simple as that sounds, what if your phone battery goes dead? What if you lose or break your phone? How about the lazy or busy days when you forget to access the app? What if you disagree with what it tells you, or you decide you prefer to do something else? What if someone makes fun of you for using the app or challenges you to not use it, but to wing it to see what happens? What other issues might arise from using the God’s Will app?
I think it’s safe to say that if God wanted us to have an app like that, He is creative enough to provide it. But here’s why I am pretty sure we will never have that download available: Because He loves us.
He doesn’t give us the end of the day at the start of the day, or divulge where the road leads when we begin, or tell us all the details of the journey—because He loves us. He wants us to walk with Him, talk to Him, listen to Him, and live in a relationship with Him, as we move, wherever we go. As in “Follow Me”—which, by the way, when Jesus said those words to the fishermen, He didn’t indicate where they would go, or what they’d be doing, or for how long. The instructions to get to God’s will, was simply then, as it is today. “Follow Me.”
“App” is short for application. The application for us IS the journey. The journey is the relationship. The relationship is Jesus.
I am the Vine and you are the branches. Get your life from Me. Then I will live in you and you will give much fruit. You can do nothing without Me. John 15:5 NLV