Are you living your life totally committed to the will of God? Was Jesus really serious when He spoke about loving God with your whole life? Well, I think that's exactly what He had in mind in Matthew 22:37, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind."
How can we possibly live a life with this degree of devotion? I think that there must be a spirit of submission to the rule and reign of the life of Jesus Christ. Without this, we will not bend our knees or heart in prayer on a daily basis. If we don't develop a life of prayer, then our knowledge of the Father's heart will be limited. It's in prayer and up out of prayer that we receive the guidance to know the will of God.
We'll learn to please the Father and to desire His will as we're loving the Son and yielding to the Holy Spirit. As we love Him, we will live out His will. Many times we want to do our will and then ask God to bless and direct. But, I know that it works so much better when we quietly yield to His will. "No man can serve two masters..." (Matthew 6:24a).
Are you living out the plans and thoughts that God has ordained for you? He has recorded all the days of your life in His holy register. His good thoughts about you outnumber the grains of sand on the beach.
Psalm 139:13-18 "You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother's womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous - how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can't even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!
Psalm 139:5,6 "You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!"
Have you found your purpose for living? Do your goals and vision line up with the principals in the Bible? I really like what God thinks about purposes. He shared His eternal plan with the world in Ephesians 3:11, "...according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord..."
Also in 2 Timothy 1:9 we have the heart of the gospel message given. "...who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,..."
I believe that God gave guidelines for determining our purpose for living. He gave His only son for the good of mankind. He had a goal, purpose, and vision to bring light and peace to the world. Jesus Christ, the Son, showed us the way in - 1 John 3:8B and Acts 10:30,"For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil and He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil." In all of our goals, we can all be like our Lord who went about doing good.