How do we know what God wants us to do?

It must be assumed that anybody claiming in any way to be godly must ask oneself that question regularly. One need not be Christian to ask the question, for it is a larger question than what kind of activity can be called Christian. It has to do with what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil, and many people outside Christendom are concerned about the same kinds of questions.

It is a bigger question than the everyday kinds of questions about whether one should do this or that, for that matter. One daily encounters questions about whether a given action is good or bad or whether a particular deed is right or wrong. We are concerned, however, with asking about a whole style of life, a way of living, a path to journey on in our trip t…