The Formula for Knowing God's Will

So, how can a book on God’s will for your life address
Christians all the way through to atheists? Yes, this book
absolutely includes Biblical principles and what I will refer to
as formulas as portrayed in the Bible. If you’re an agnostic or
atheist, just view it as you would any other piece of literature.
There’s always at least a thing or two you can learn from any
book. That’s been my view, and it hasn’t failed yet. I may not
AGREE with everything. I might not even like the author’s
core viewpoints. However, there’s always something to learn.

This book is not ALL about the Bible, God, and the
scriptures. The strongest rope is not one of a single strand.
The strongest rope is made of many, separate, independent
strands all intertwined and working together. So, knowing
God’s will for your life includes principles from other disciplines
like science, philosophy, and even the military. There’s a
whole lot of U.S. Marine Corps doctrine in this book. You
can take the man out of the Marine Corps but not the Marine
Corps out of the man as goes the old saying. Having spent 24
years in the Corps, yeah, there’s learning extracted from that
powerful life thread.

These disciplines introduce logic, as the Bible even
includes logic, and what I refer to as universal principles. When
you start absorbing principles across all these categories,
you see that universal principles arise, universal truths that
apply universally. This is a fundamental premise of this book.
How should atheists and agnostics react whenever “God”
is mentioned? Easy, just insert either the word power or
intuition. There you have it. Now, any reader can digest this
book and gain value from it.

In fact, when referring to Biblical scriptures, figures, or
stories, I’m not even going to quote the scripture. I will include
an annotation next to the reference and include the scriptures
at the end of the chapter if you care to look further. This book
is about making a tough subject—how to know the will of
God—simple. So, I don’t want to refer to ten scriptures when
one will do. And I don’t want any of the audiences for whom this book is intended to get tripped up in all the “Christian-speak” that is typical of a book like this.

What you’re going to see in this book is the absolute
breakdown of anything mystical. Knowing God’s will is not
based on “voice from the sky” experiences, though that can
happen. In the Bible, it happened many times, but those
instances were rare. More likely are the straightforward
processes that we ordinary people can practice every day.
At God’s core, IMHO, He’s logical. He’s not trying to make
anything about Him difficult for us to understand . . . or do. If
anything, God is quite simple. Heresy, you cry! Really?
Take Adam and Eve. God tells them, “You can have this
entire Earth. And you can do anything you want, though I
don’t want you to eat the fruit of this specific tree. If you eat
that fruit, well, bad things will happen.” And He told them what
would happen.

Does this sound mystical? Did God make it
hard for them to understand? Heck no! God made it very clear
and simple. And Adam and Eve still goofed it up.

In this book, you will see many formulas that are actually
quite logical and those which you can immediately put into
practice.