Unmotivated high school seniors really get my goat. Working with teens for so many years, I'm constantly talking to them about personal responsibility, especially in the area of their education. I try to make it clear that you can't start planning on going to college when you're a senior. Your grades from your freshman year are just as important as your senior year. Yet I see so many kids who get to that last year of high school and are completely unprepared for life after high school. They just look like their wandering around with no idea what they're supposed to do or even what they want to do.
Christians need to be people of vision. Through prayer and bible study, you should have an idea of what you should be doing with your life. And not just your possible occupations, but what you should be doing with your day-to-day life. Do you have goals for your job? Do you also have goals for your spiritual life? Do you desire to resist sin and pray with passion? It's interesting that the verse ends by saying that you'll be happy in keeping the law. When a person has no vision, or goal for which they are striving, they will probably miss many aspects of their relationships with Jesus Christ. And when you find yourself ignoring the across the board commandments of Scripture that are for everyone, happiness will not come to your doorstep. Only guilt and disappointment can be found there. Do you have a vision for who you're supposed to be? God does, and He wants you to know it. God doesn't play hide-n-seek with His will for your life, because then you would be unlikely to find it. He reveals what is needed to those who ask? Ask God to make it clear who you are supposed to be today, tomorrow, and for the future.
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