The seventh attitude or quality of one who is determined to discover God’s will, that is of a serious discerner of being one with God in the way we live, is the ability to not confuse the ends with the means. It is easy to forget the end—the goal of my entire existence-- when I am entangled in the means to get there. For instance, how many people when going off to college are set on choosing that major by which they will make a lot of money and be marketable and not that major by which they will best serve God, grow in God’s love and give glory to their Creator. Serving God is not, many times, even within one’s consciousness. Or, how often might we be striving for success, wanting to be recognized, heard, appreciated—not bad thing things in itself, but part of being human—and slaving to accomplish those goals without ever thinking that what our first goal, in any given task, is to be about serving God, loving God and giving praise to God by our efforts, whether we succeed or, human speaking, fail.
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