Unwillingness to Respond to the Knowledge We Have

I’ve been greatly helped and greatly convicted lately by the reality that most of my problems are not lack of knowledge problems, as I often assume:

We do not, therefore, need to fret when we have to make big decisions about the future, worrying about the terrifying possibility that we might miss God’s will for our lives. We simply need to do what we already know in the present. God has been clear where clarity is most needed. The choices we make everyday–to love a spouse after an argument, to treat an unkind coworker with respect, to serve food at a soup kitchen, to pray for God’s help when we do not feel much need for it–determine whether or not we are doing the will of God. If we have a problem, it is not lack of knowledge; rather, it is our unwillingness to respond to the knowledge we have.

Gerald Sittser, The Will of God as a Way of Life, p. 19