Am I executing God's will, God's way?

Delight yourself in the Lord;
And He will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord,
Trust also in Him, and He will do it. - Psalm 37:4-5 (NASB)

As a Christ-follower, one who has been justified by faith, our ultimate purpose in this life is to follow Jesus, to have the mind of Christ, and to be conformed to His image. In doing so, we will sensitize our hearts to the leading of the Holy Spirit and understand the will of God for our lives. If we chose not to renew our mind and seek the mind of Christ, we will continue to deceive ourselves into thinking our will is God's will.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. - Romans 12:2 (NASB)

For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son - Romans 8:29a (NASB)

When your will is God's will, you will have your will. - Charles Spurgeon

Jesus, being fully God, willingly surrendered all that He had as the Creator of the Universe to be born into this world and ultimately nailed to a cross and die for our sins. So with that, as our role model, having the mind of Christ and conforming to His image means to follow His example. That means we die to our "rights" just as Jesus did and conform to the Father's will just as Jesus did, yielding ourselves fully to God's will.

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, as He already existed in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and being born in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death on a cross. - Philippians 2:5-8 (NASB)

If life is to have meaning, and if God's will is to be done, all of us have to accept who we are and what we are, give it back to God, and thank Him for the way He made us. What I am is God's gift to me; what I do with it is my gift to Him. - Warren Wiersbe

Feed what you want to grow,
Starve what you want to die.

Be Encouraged to feed your understanding of God's will through God's Word and starve my will, my way, my timing.

-Jeffrey Thornton