Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done (Luke 22.42)
We should not imagine, were we always to know God’s outcome for our personal life plan and meaningful ministry, that we would necessarily be excited by or want to pursue it.
We need to distinguish between the purpose of God and the specifics of how these purposes might be outworked in our life. The Biblical prophetic voice majors on the purposes and fine-tunes with the specifics for our personal lives – hence ‘fortune telling’ about the future is neither a healthy concern nor focus for us.
Christian life goals should not simply be about outcomes. What should be of more concern to us are the ‘drivers’ of our life – the ‘who’, the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of life. The outcome is up to God. Sometimes He will reveal it. But often He will not. So let’s get on with it now.