How many times devout individuals, upon request, attempt to explain to others that they have been called by God to accomplish certain things, only to have the listener(s) suggest, sometimes even demand, that they accomplish other things instead. Perhaps they don't believe the individual communicates with God at all.
Perhaps they refuse to listen to God themselves, and scoff at the notion that anyone else should, or would even want to!
Perhaps they resist doing God's will because they are running from God, instead of running to Him.
Those who seek to do the will of God listen for His voice. Those who truly love Him do what He asks, often at great personal sacrifice.
Such individuals comprehend the immeasurable value of living, loving, and serving in imitation of Christ.
So often they wonder what to say to those who question their obedience. It seems that even with the most rational explanation, some people still do not understand.
Even worse, sometimes the devout themselves are tempted to resist the will of God.
In all circumstances, let us turn to Jesus as our model to follow. This account comes from The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations by Anne Catherine Emmerich:
"When at last all the Apostles were returned from their missions, the latest arrivals being Thomas, John, and Bartholomew, Jesus went with them to Cana, whither came also the seventy disciples and the holy women from Capharnaum. On an eminence in the center of the city there was a teacher's chair, from which Jesus taught, taking for His subject His own mission and its accomplishment.
"He said that He had not come into this world to enjoy the comforts and pleasures of life, and that it was foolish to demand of Him anything else than the fulfillment of His Father's will.
"He said in terms more significant than every that He Himself was the One so long expected, but that He would be received by only a few, and and that when His work was done, He would return to His Father.
"He spoke warningly and entreatingly, begging His hearers most earnestly not to reject salvation and the moment of grace." 1
Remember these words and repeat them whenever necessary:
"It is foolish to demand of me anything else than the fulfillment of my Father's will."
God is at work in you!
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Source:
1. From the Visions of the Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich, as Recorded in the Journals of Clemens Brantano, Arranged and Edited by the Very Reverend Carl E. Schmuger, C.SS.R. The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations, Volume Three of Four (Rockford, IL: Tan Books and Publishers, 1986), pp. 449-450.