Sakal; Knowing and Doing God's Will, God's Way

The Hebrew word sakal is used in the Old Testament to describe hearing and doing God’s will from God’s word for every occasion in life. In most places it is translated “behave wisely.”

Romans 12:2 states that God’s will is good, pleasing, and perfect. And so, to hear and do God’s will from God’s word will enable you to present your life as a good, pleasing, and perfect offering and fragrance to the Father; to worship the Father in spirit and truth.

But how can you know for sure what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God? That, my friend, is the question, but the greater problem is that it’s the wrong question.

You see, God desires you to know Him, to seek Him, more than anything else there is; more than something about Him, like His will. There are only two kinds of knowing; knowing about something or someone, and knowing something or someone. The two kinds knowing are very different.

When you know about something, you handle the information, you manage it for when you need to use it. But knowing someone is a relationship. You don’t manage (manipulate) a relationship. You don’t use a person in a relationship. Of course, we know that people do, but this is not the way God created us to relate with Him or others. It is certainly not the way He desires to relate with you.

In a personal relationship with the Father, through faith in the Son, the Holy Spirit imparts Himself to you so that you can know Him, love Him, desire Him, enjoy Him in life! God does this by speaking into your life, from the inside out, where He lives in you, with you, through you, as you! This is worshiping the Father in spirit and truth.

Sakal, behaving wisely, is His life, from His word, which He has spoken in you. It is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God, which is the result of knowing Him in a good, pleasing, and perfect relationship.

And sakal, the will of God and the desire and power to do it, is given, only in a personal relationship with the Father, through faith in the Son, and by the Holy Spirit. Apart from Him you can do nothing, or worse, you will try to do something in your power, under your control, to know about His will. This was what Adam and Eve were tempted to do, which they did. We are all very aware of and all to familiar with that outcome.

Sakal is desiring and having God in control and loving it that way! Hallelujah!

Today, seek the Lord with all your heart. Don’t worry about doing His will. God is the only One who can do His will. Desire to know Him, in His word, for it is only in that relationship that His desires will become yours.

Tomorrow, more on sakal.