Page 64 give you supernatural guidance. However, He has given us no such promise. He leaves the decisions in these areas to our discernment. However, if He does lead you in some supernatural way on a non- moral issue–be it an inward prompting, a ,personal prophecy, or an outward sign such as a dream or vision–it should only be trusted if it is consistent with wisdom (sound judgment) and the moral will of God disclosed in Scripture. If God’s people would pay heed to the above principle, it would spare them from making many foolish decisions in life. It certainly would have spared Jack from missing out on two wonderful opportunities that the Lord brought his way. I’d like to mention one further point on this score. Even if you make a foolish decision . . . even if you make a mistake in judgment . . . even if you miss a golden opportunity due to an error in judgment, God’s sovereign will is so grand that He works all things together for the good of those who love Him (Rom. 8:28). This is not an excuse to make foolish decisions deliberately. But it certainly does remove the pressure to always make the best decision. If we are yielded to Him, the Lord will forge wisdom within us on the anvil of our mistakes. This is the genius of our God. He has a way of making lemonade out of our lemons. So while I am trying to mitigate the pain and damage that foolish decisions reap, experience (even when brutal) is a very effective teacher. I will end this chapter by summarizing what we’ve learned by
A kingdom is a domain ruled by a single monarch who has absolute sovereignty, who functions with unilateral authority, whose will is non-contradictable, authoritative, absolute. It is not representative, it is not democratic. The will of the people does not rule. The will of the people virtually has no impact. The duty of the people is to submit. The duty of the people is to obey. The duty of the people is to fall under the standards and commands that are determined by the king and do whatever it is he asks. This is true of the kingdom of God… The kingdom of God has come and those of us who know Christ are in it. We are in it and the Lord Jesus Christ is our King.
John MacArthur