Your Will Father...Mathew 26:36-44
This is another life-long lesson topic but is of utmost importance. Do you often make plans for what you are going to achieve by when, only to realize that the "by when" did come...but the "achieve" never happened? Do you have hopes for the future, aspirations for greater things, ideas waiting to be realized...but here you are still waiting, struggling to believe, vacillating back-and-forth? Prayers of When God? How God? or even Now God! Petitioning in every manner you have been taught to pray, believing that maybe this time might be the breakthrough...yet you are still there...waiting...
I have been working with my Father in this area. This past Sunday I was able to attend one of the bestest church that targets young adults and presents the truth in a very relevant manner - Mars Hill Fellowship Church. As I reflected on the day's message, it hit me - total surrender is God's will. So I asked God, "I want to serve you but I find it difficult to surrender that which I do not yet have". My answer was found in James 4:1...the desires that rage within. This indicates that there are "fleshly desires" and "Godly desires" in battle within me, and the only resolution is to submit to God and give Him all my desires. Trusting Him that when it really matters, His Will will prevail.
Though I struggle, deep down my heart's desire is to please God and be obedient to Him. I pray that my life is led how He wants me to live, accomplishing His priorities, and giving Him all the Glory in every way. Thus far, this I know for sure - I have laughed till tears ran down my face and almost lost breath, I have experienced hurting pain to the point of numbness and depression, I have pressed to the point of almost passing out, and I have received unmeasurable undeserved blessings. Through it all, my God has been lovingly, protectively, passionately, generously, tenderly, kindly, and faithfully with me.
Today I am grateful for the raging desires, which bring me daily to my knees seeking wisdom and discernment. He has given me His general will in 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 and as far as the specific what to do when, I am grateful that I do not have all the answers. I am forced to come to Him for my daily bread, because He knows my heart may have good intentions but left to my own I would soon forget like the Israelites...I may not know it all but my God does. I Believe Him and I Trust Him.
Let Your Will Father, not mine, be done in my life, in this earth...as it is in Heaven
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