Thoughts on Time and "God's Will"

I was reading a blog from a friend of mine, Ryan (http://ryanhewitt.wordpress.com/), earlier today on "Time." (Check out his blog, it is pretty cool!) Anyway, it got me thinking about time myself, and how we (Americans) use it to accomplish things (mostly through work), things that don't really matter for anything. We run and run and run to nowhere - like a hampster in a wheel. I think that there are few people who die and actually leave a legacy, a mark, something that is bigger than themselves and their own enjoyment/fulfillment. That is a sad fact if you think about it. We mistakingly think it (time) is for us and that is just not the case.

I think that we, as Christians, further transfer our misuse/misunderstanding of time onto our perspective of "God's will." Any Christian has heard about this concept, most of us have heard too much. It seems that people take this idea of "God's will" and connect it with their concept of time and their use of it to accomplish things. They forget that God is outside of time and it seems to me that His will for us has nothing to do with what we do in terms of a job to make money. That is just what we have to do to live here. To limit our concept of "God's will" to that of an occupation is to limit God. He does not care about our occupation, He cares about us . . . relationship with us. The way I see it, if we are in relationship with God, then we are in His will. Why then do people make such a big deal about being "in" God's will in terms of what they will do? I only see one reason - they are insecure in their relationship with God and the fact that that is enough. If they did nothing else here on earth, He would still say "Well done," because He got what He wanted - them.

As my church has been reading through Galatians - Paul's cry to the early church against adding a "to do" list if you will to salvation and the Grace of Jesus Christ - I have been realizing that we are not so very different. It shows up in people's limited view of being in/out of God's will. They simply cannot accept that there is nothing else they have to do in terms of being right with God. Salvation is not: believe in Christ AND DO, do, do "for" God. No. It is simply to believe and BE in relationship with God. I say, don't worry, He will take care of the rest. We don't serve a God who "needs" us, but we do live in a world full of people who need to know Him. I don't see that it matters what we do for "tentmaking" to support ourselves and our families, as long as we are sharing the Love that we know and the One who gave us that Love, nothing else matters. That is the legacy I want to leave.