God’s Will to Be Known

I ran across the following quote in “The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative” (Christopher J. H. Wright):

So all our missional efforts to make God known must be set within the prior framework of God’s own will to be known. We are seeking to accomplish what God himself wills to happen. This is both humbling and reassuring. It is humbling inasmuch as it reminds us that all our efforts would be in vain but for God’s determination to be known. We are neither the initiators of the mission of making God known to the nations nor does it lie in our power to decide how the task will be fully accomplished or when it may be deemed to be complete. But it is also reassuring. For we know that behind all our fumbling efforts and inadequate communication stands the supreme will of the living God, reaching out in loving self-revelation, incredibly willing to open blind eyes and reveal his glory through the treasures of the gospel delivered in the clay pots of his witnesses (2 Cor 4:1-7).

One response to “God’s Will to Be Known”

  1. James Briggs Avatar

    I just find this web page so exciting Jay as I work through God will and not my will in his timing not mine.I so much enjoy thoughts on movements and God Bless everyone involved.James

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