My Will Be Done?
Sunday at Creekstone we prayed the Lord's Prayer together. One line that we tend to recite without thinking too deeply is, "Thy will be done." Are we sure we know what we are saying? Thy will? To be honest, I tend to be tenaciously committed to the fulfillment of my will. It is that commitment that sows the seeds of worry, anxiety, fear, drivenness, control and self-protection, among other things. So to pray for the Father's will to be realized is a strong statement of humility, faith and dependency upon the all-sovereign, all-wise and all-loving redemptive plan of God. Humility, faith and dependency cannot co-exist with the idol of my playing the role of Lord of my own life. And as someone has said, being God is way above my pay scale. I'm simply not equipped for that task. After all, if I were God, I never would have planned to rescue the unworthy from their sins — especially through the heinous death of my own son. Yet, as Isaiah 53 says, "It was the Lord's will to crush him" because "All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God's paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all" (NLT). Eternal love. Ungraspable grace. Thank you, Father, that Jesus prayed "Thy will be done," and followed through with the plan. Now help me trust your sovereign, wise and loving will with humility, faith and dependency as I journey this day on the paths you have laid out for me.
