R.C. Sproul

where I will be more fulfilled and more effective because there will be a better fit between who I am and what my job is.

What I'm going to be looking at in our next session is how our gifts and talents fit our jobs.

There's probably not one person in a thousand whose gifts and talents perfectly fit the job description of their employment.

How do we deal with that?

We'll look at that in our next session.

We can become so preoccupied with the explicit will of God for our lives that we offend Him by resorting to techniques that the Old Testament would have considered magic and would have frowned upon with great disdain.

And so what I want to do is look at legitimate ways that the Bible gives us and sets before us of discerning the will of God.

How do you know the will of God for your life?

I think I get that question more frequently than any other theological or biblical question.

And I was thinking about this recently.

I'd gone hunting in December.

And in the middle of the day, I climbed up into a tree on a tree stand as we were hunting for buck.

And if any of you have ever been buck hunting and sitting on a tree stand for any length of time, you know how uncomfortable that can be and how boring it can be.

I enjoy it, but you have to concentrate fiercely, listen to every rustling of the grass and every breaking twig to be alert for the appearance and approach of a deer.

But during my boredom on the tree stand, I started to think of an experience that a close friend of mine had several years ago.

He had finished his medical residency in one city in America, his surgical residency as he was a surgeon.

And he was invited to stay in that city and to continue to work at the hospital where he had done his internship.

And at the same time, he had received an invitation from a small group of doctors in Wisconsin to join them in their practice.

And this man was a devout Christian, and he earnestly wanted to know where God wanted him to be and where God wanted him to serve.

So he prayed about it and prayed about it.