I understand that it seems unrealistic to some that one can know the will of God for one's life.


The simple explanation is, such people do not have a close relationship with God in the first place. Or, at least, God does not occupy His rightful place in their respective lives. If He does, this would be a nonissue. As long as God remains this mythical, distant personality, knowing His will for your life will simply be inconceivable. Indeed, you may not even be able to fathom the idea that He has any particular interest in you as a person. It's like saying the president of the United States is interested in knowing what I had for lunch yesterday.


Many people go through life without any cohesive goal. They go from job to job, relationship to relationship, without any meaningful existence. They spend most of their lives working at dead end jobs, with only brief interruptions they call "vacations" in between. At the end of the day, they "retire", after having wasted their very existence, and having nothing substantial to show for it, except for bills, a ricketty house that took 30 years to pay for, and severe arthritis at the joints. Even in their retirement, what do they do? Drink beer, travel to some dreaded third world, and get fat. Because this dance is so common it has become the norm. Thus, when someone refuses to tow this wasteland of meaningless existence, and they seek (and obtained) God's directions for their lives, they are branded as "religious nuts".


I often tell people that cigarette smoking is the most expensive habit anyone can have.The greatest tragedy, in my opinion, is for someone to go through life without knowing what they were here for. They not only deprive the world of their worth, they also become willing instruments to advance the devil's kingdom.