Your Will Be Done

Disregarding today’s title verse, I suspect, has led more souls to be disappointed with God than you or I can identify. This verse, mind you, was never given by the Spirit to serve as a blank spiritual check for every earthly desire we’ve ever had. The practice of framing God according to our own specifications-- along the lines of unbiblical teachings, such as the “prosperity gospel,” a.k.a., “the name-it-&-claim it” deception, and other cultic belief systems, has been widespread in American pulpits for several decades now. Those who’ve promoted such teachings should cease calling themselves “gospel preachers” and instead hang out a shingle that says, “Motivational Speaker: with Some Bible Sprinkled In.” When those souls who subscribe to such teachings realize that they’ve “drunk the deceptive Kool-Aid,” oftentimes they depart from church attendance altogether—their ill-fated misbelief bubble having been broken! Why are so many souls deceived by the craftiness, referred to in 2 Corinthians 11:3—such that their minds become “corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ?”

If you are a Christ-follower, dear reader, it may be time to reinstate a true respect for and credence in the  words, “Thy will be done.” For His PLEASURE we were created—if we belong to Christ. We were not redeemed by the Savior to live for ourselves, to prayerfully seek first and foremost what pleases us—not if we really believe 1 Corinthians 6:19b! Rather, we were bought with a price, and are no longer our own. Not even Christ entered this world to please Himself, but the will of the Father [John 5:30]. His Spirit reveals in Hebrews 10:5 that “...a body You have prepared for Me…in the volume of the book it is written of Me—to do Your will, O God.” Without a doubt, our Lord’s agonizing prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane –His prayer for another way to accomplish our deliverance from sin’s penalty—demonstrates our necessity to likewise seek and yield to our Lord’s will being done in this temporal life.

PRAYER: Dear Father, grant that we who follow after You may reignite our focus upon yielding much more consistently in our prayer life to the desire expressed by Your Son—that of ‘Not my will, but Your will be done.’ Thank You, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
By Sis. Denise Diggs