Has God Spoken?

If the Creator has communicated with the created, how would we best discover it?

Typically, those who've inferred a creator's existence admit lacking any inherent or definitive knowledge of his will. Beyond gut-feelings and guesses, most don't consider themselves oracles of the divine. Instead we readily acknowledge the need to look outside ourselves for such revelation. Our innate awareness of God spurs us to seek Him, but beyond that impetus it contributes little to the mystery of God's will and purposes.

For many, their confusion at this dilemma has led to scepticism. After all, if one accepts there is a God and sets out to seek him, why such conundrum? If God has a message to share, why not make it more obvious? Why allow us to become so confused with options: ideologies, philosophies, religions etc.?

However, once again, as with 'bad things not denoting the absence of a good creator', so too challenges to perceiving him do not denote His unwillingness to be perceived. In fact the challenges in seeking God may well be due to reasons far removed from God's unwillingness.

• Maybe there is something that cautions God from revealing Himself unequivocally.
• Could it be that there is divine purpose in the challenge of seeking God that we fail to immediately appreciate.
• Perhaps faults inherent in ourselves prevent us from comprehending God more emphatically.
• Or perhaps other entities exist opposed to God's will, dedicated to obstructing its discovery & distorting its relevance.

But this still begs the question: Where does one start in seeking God's will?

Trust

Logically, if God wants His will to be known, he must be trusted to make knowing it possible. It is illogical to claim that a God exists who simultaneously wants and prevents his will being known.

Further, if in our own power we cannot apprehend what he wants us to know, he must be trusted to achieve for us–or with us–what we would otherwise find impossible to achieve alone.

Therefore, it might be said that the quest for divine revelation begins only when we trust God to help us find it; committing our efforts to the blessing of Him who we believe wants to be found.

However, trusting that God can reveal his will doesn't negate our having to seek it out. It's not that easy, as most who've sought him can testify. A comparison might be a child’s treasure hunt. We may trust God to oversee our efforts, but it is still our feet that have to carry us, our determination to move them.

Ultimately, however, it comes down to this: If God wants to be known by a creation that cannot in themselves find him, He must provide a revelation of himself to them.

How he reveals his will, to what degree and what purpose, are his to decide. In this we are at the mercy of his choices, not he to ours.

Of course, when it comes to seeking God and making choices, there are no shortage of options presented to us. Yet it remains the responsibility of each seeker to exercise honesty & discernment. 

However, we really only have two options:

1. Wait for God to inspire us directly with a knowledge of his will, or,
2. Sort through (discern) the messages of those who claim such inspiration.

Or maybe a combination of these two. We honestly sort through the claims, and God somehow helps us discern the truth of them.

I assume you have read this far because you honestly want to know God's will, and don't consider yourself inspired of God. With that in common, can I ask if you have considered the claims of Jesus?

Jesus

Have you heard Jesus' claims. If you are a seeker of God's will, I encourage you to discover who Jesus was and what he had to say. As an introduction, see the following link for a simple presentation of God's message through Christ's.

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”

...I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.

John 14:6-12