do God's will

I will only be happy doing God’s will
Mary 14 years old

For the first 13 years of my life I didn’t care about God or my faith. But my life was changed when the two most important events in it happened: going to high school and Katrina. After my first week of school, Hurricane Katrina came and destroyed my hometown. In the months that followed I started what I consider my real five years of high school. Here I was intorduced to the two most important people in my life, and since I met them I have desired to know and do God’s will for me. It starts with defeating my addiction, and ends in finding happiness.

I want to do God’s will and not my own because people consider they love God but they do not ask “Order my Step” in your ways dear Lord thats what I’m asking. I don’t want to do just what comes “Naturally” but “Supernaturally”. Because I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. As Christians we have to learn how to put the body under subjection. Thank You Jesus for your Grace. Guide me dear Lord in JESUS NAME Amen.

I’ve recently really grasped an understanding of how important seeking the will of the Lord is. I’m currently enlisted in the Marine Corps and have 3 1/2 years of a 5 year contract left. My flesh is not happy about it. I sought to get out early from my contract. God divinely intervined in my life three months ago and saved me from going on a 14 month deployment to Iraq. Again, my flesh did not and still does not want to go. But like Jonah did not want to go to Nineveth, I am trying to learn from his mistake and actually listen to God. And now I sencerely believe that God’s wil for me, even if I had tryed to fight it in the past, is for me to be in the Marine Corps, at the shop I’m at, witnessing to my fellow Marines. Never in my life, (even while going to a Christian school) have I been bold enough to witness to people, and never have I been around a more excepting and curious group of people. They ask me so many questions, I have to stop and ask myself, why do I want so badly to get out of this situation, when as believers our great commision is to tell all the inhabitants of the world the gospel, and there are Marines in my very shop who unbelievable as it may seem living in the US, have know idea who Jesus is? Please continue to encourage me not losing sight of God’s will!