All wisdom and spiritual understanding

Col.
{1:8} Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
{1:9} For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it,] do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding


And desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.


Filled with the knowledge of his will. Don't we long for this? To know God's will for us? We pray Your will be done Lord, Your will no matter what it might be and yet in the back of our minds we are adding things like, 'but please, don't let this happen', or 'please, let this happen.' We want God's will to be done but we want it to match our own will. Sure we might not mind a little hardship, a few obstacles, a bit of angst to deal with but those huge monster problems we could do without, right? Yet, nevertheless not our will but Your will be done. We are willing to accept the horrific trials and by the grace of God keep our faith that no matter what we are asked to go through we believe that Jesus loves us, died for us and through the hope we place in Him and His righteousness we will be saved to eternal life in Him. We truly want to be fill with the knowledge of God's will. Show me thy will. We pray for that and yet sometimes perhaps as God is showing us we close our eyes because it's not our will, it's not what we want. That old saying- be careful what you ask/wish for you might get it- holds true. Rejecting the will of God has consequences. Jonah tried to reject the will of God and look what happened to Him. Others rejected the will of God and their fate is worse- it's death. There isn't any way to know what the outcome will be, whether the will of God will keep being pressed to you so you'll do it, or whether God will find another to do for Him what you won't. We do pray for the will of God, to be filled with the knowledge of God's will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding because we hope that we will see the wisdom and have such spiritual understanding that we won't doubt what is being revealed to us. Doubt is our enemy but we call it our smart side that gives us caution and keeps us from doing foolish things. Doubt, that small voice or that screaming banshee of a voice that keeps us from understanding the will of God. Yes, we need wisdom, we need spiritual understanding because with the wisdom we will know what to do and with the spiritual understanding we will recognize the will of God and we will follow Him and all His ways.


Col.
{1:8} Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
{1:9} For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it,] do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding
{1:10} That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
{1:11} Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness
{1:12} Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light
{1:13} Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son
{1:14} In whom we have redemption through his blood, [even] the forgiveness of sins
{1:15} Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature
{1:16} For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or
dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him
{1:17} And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
{1:18} And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he might have
the preeminence.
{1:19} For it pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell
{1:20} And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, [I say,] whether [they be] things in earth, or things in heaven.
{1:21} And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
{1:22} In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight
{1:23} If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and [be] not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, [and] which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister
{1:24} Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church
{1:25} Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
{1:26} [Even] the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints
{1:27} To whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory
{1:28} Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus {1:29} Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.


To whom God would make known what the riches of the glory of this mystery among Gentiles which is Christ in you- the hope of glory. Whom we preach warning every men and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.


The will of God. Spiritual understanding, wisdom, the will of God preached to EVERY man Jesus, the hope of glory. Warning EVERY man so that every man is perfect in Christ Jesus.


We have a duty to warn and to preach, those of us who are Christ's. We have a duty to warn them of the peril they are in if they are not in Christ. We have a duty to preach Christ Jesus the hope of all men, the hope of glory- Christ in us.


May we be given wisdom and spiritual understanding to know the will of God and to follow the will of God. May we preach and warn those we meet of the hope in Christ in them. Bless us Lord, be the voice we can't be, help us Lord, help us. Lord we believe, help thou our unbelief. Lord we need you desperately our willl is weak and our knowledge small. Please Lord we are weak, and You are strong, You are our Hope in glory, You, Christ Jesus our Lord, our only Hope now and forever.


Amen.