God's will - doing right and feeling good?

Some years ago I was given a plaque for my office. The wording was more or less like this:

We have not succeeded in answering all of your problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.

If ever there was a warning about counselors being overconfident, that certainly is it. If you were considered to be successful, all your clients left feeling better but confused. You consoled yourself with the thought that at the very least they were confused on a higher level than they were when they first came to you.

But, in the real world this approach just won't do. People are looking for answers that work. They are less concerned about feeling good than they are about really messing their lives up by following advice they have been given. If, as we work together, we concentrate on learning God's will, and not on people, places, things, and other side issues, we won't become more confused. And, most of us probably won't have to become involved with more important things.

We do the best we can to learn God's will for us and then we do the best we can to carry it out in our lives. That may be scary. It requires Faith. Faith is not about intellectual correctness, or about doing good, but absolute trust, and God will not take us anywhere He can't protect us.