WANTING HIS WILL

Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Matthew 6:10

THERE is a perfect plan in the Father’s heart that he designed for you. One of the surest ways to keep moving toward the Father and his plan is to agree with his will for you.

Many characters in the Bible wanted only their own wills and their own ways. Far fewer desired the Father’s plan, but they were the spiritually powerful ones.

Here are a few of them and their prayers:

• Mary, after hearing the angel’s prophecy regarding the child that she would bear, prayed, “Let it be to me according to your word.”

• Though David had sinned and moved away from God’s plan for his life, he finally came to a place where he repented (turned around) and this was his prayer: “Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground” (Ps. 143:10).

• Jesus himself, who desired his Father’s perfect will more than anyone, prayed near the end of his life that the bitter cup of God’s will would be taken away. But later that same evening, when he prayed for a second time, these were his words: “My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done” (Matt. 26:42).

God has a design for us each day. We can miss it or we can find it. If we miss it, it is our loss, not his. If we find it, it is our gain.If you have not the vaguest clue as to what God’s will is for you, you may not have been listening carefully enough.

God wants to communicate with us. He wants desperately for each of us to hear him.And what he has for each of us will not be drudgery.

It will not be boring. We won’t feel like we are scrubbing floors while everybody else is going to the ball. It will be exactly right for us.

But we will never find his will for us until we are willing to “seek and knock and ask.”

Until we are willing to say as David did, “Teach me to do your will,” we’ll remain on the outside looking in.

Father God, I want your will because I know that nothing else on earth will truly fulfill me.

Forgive me for trying to satisfy myself with the bland food of my self-will when you are waiting with the banquet of your perfect will for me.

Amen

#pray