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How do we know what God’s will for our lives is?



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Reformed Samaritanism General Overview

How do we know what God’s will for our lives is? 
How can we know God's will for our lives? We do so by remembering that God’s Law contains all that we 
need to know, in order to understand (in a broad sense) what God expects from His servants. Thus, when we 
begins to study God’s Law (also known as “Torah”), we finds that certain things are obviously lawful (like 
celebrating Passover, leaving the corners of his harvest for the benefit of the poor, honoring his parents, 
keeping the Shabbat day, etc.); while other things are obviously illicit (do not steal, do not lie, do not practice
usury, do not fornicate, do not be arrogant, do not put a stumbling block before the blind, do not curse the 
deaf, etc). 
And, between these two extremes, there are things that are doubtful-- about which the sages of Israel still do 
not reach total agreement. Some of these things are: What is the exact pronunciation of the Shem Ha 
Meforash (the Tetragrammaton)? How long will the Messianic era last? How long will the punishment in 
Gehinnom last? Who (or what) is the Messiah? Will the ten lost tribes ever return? Etc. 
The mature believer puts aside what is doubtful, in order to put the emphasis on fulfilling what is obviously 
lawful (making good the wise saying that goes on to say: “One bird in your hand, is better than a hundred 
birds flying high above your head”). On the other hand, the immature believer leaves aside what the Torah 
makes clearly permissible, and focuses instead in what the Torah leaves uncertain and doubtful, thereby 
“straining out the gnat, while gulping down the camel”. 
The fact is that, he who knows what Torah’s implicit message actually is (do no harm to the innocent, and do 
what is good, as one day God will judge your life, returning upon you the same measure of goodness you’ve 
bestowed upon your fellow human beings), clearly understands that following what Torah has made self 
evident will always take precedence over what the Torah has left doubtful. And the former consists of 
honoring our parents, having mercy of the hungry, abstaining from lies, usury, immorality, and opportunism 
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(things whose reward the Torah guarantees that both Hebrews and Gentiles will receive, as demonstrated by 
the story of Job). 
In the eyes of God, doing the former goodness is far more important than believing that so-and-so is a 
descendant of one of the lost tribes of Israel; that so-and-so (Jesus, Bar Koziva, Schneerson, etc) is the 
promised Messiah; that Shabbat may sometimes fall upon a different day of the week; or that the 
Tetragrammaton must be pronounced in this or that other way (Things whose subjective nature prevents us 
from knowing with certainty whether they will be rewarded or not). 
Truth is that, trying to take care of the things that the Torah has left doubtful, at the expense of neglecting 
those that are clearly evident, is like pretending to “outpace those running on a horseback”, without first 
outpacing those “running on their own feet”. That is to say, if we cannot “digest” (or “make our own”) the 
small idea of being faithful to the truth that is clearly evident (i.e., “you shall not bear false witness”), how 
can we ever proclaim ourselves custodians of those larger truths which are not self evident? Trying to do so 
would be a manifestation of our self-deception and pride; things for which the wrath of God comes upon 
mankind. 
In short, if you live in obedience to God’s Ten Laws (something obviously lawful), and somebody claims to 
tell you (supposedly in the name of God) that you mus abide by something that the Torah has left doubtful 
(that you mus do, or believe, this or that other thing; that you must go to this or that other place; that you 
must accept this or that other theological interpretation; that you must follow this or that other religious 
leader; that must believe in this or that other book, etc), rest assured that God doesn’t expect your to blindly 
believe the words of such person. And, unless you are absolutely sure that what that person is ordering you 
represents God’s will for your life (and doesn’t undermine or contradict what God’s Law makes clearly 
lawful and unlawful), you have no obligation to obey (nor believe) what is being told to you. 

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