Matthew 6:10 " your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."
Throughout my walk I have said to God, "Your will be done.", but deep down really preferred my will be done. What I want a lot of the time outweighs what God has planned. This has resulted in hurt and heartache. So lately I've been focusing on surrendering my will to God's will. In my prayers I often mention what my will is in this life hoping that they line up with His. Saying this I know that some just don't. How? The heart behind the request. Is it a selfish reason where I am looking for pleasure or self-fulfillment? Sometimes I ask for things that I may not think in the moment are selfish, but looking back I see they were. I would ask for whatever I wanted and was sure to add, but it's all for your glory. Some of those things you might hear and say, but how could that be against God's will? For example I wanted God to fix my marriage and the issues that lied within it. That doesn't sound bad, right and it's not. The problem was that it wasn't God's will. There were many underlying issues with myself and my ex-husband. I truly believe that we were not meant to be together, but because we were not in line with God's will, we forced it. It was a relationship based on our emotions and sin crept in. God was not the center of our relationship. He wasn't the cream in our cookie that held us together, while keeping us far enough apart to enjoy His presence individually. Blame for circumstances and consequences can easily shift to God if we are not careful. Satan will always try and make our will look better and seem right over God's will.
Some things are easier to surrender than others. For example, it is easy for me to trust God with my finances. All of my life he has taken care of me and I have never been in need. I have always had a roof over my head and food on the table. Those are what I consider my most important needs. Believe it or not being single is not a struggle for me. If God decides to bless me with a husband one day, then may all the glory be to Him. If he doesn't, then may all the glory be to Him. He is enough for me. This doesn't mean that I don't desire a spouse, it just means I am surrendered to God's will in this area.
Now an area of struggle when it comes to His will is my children. Who when you really think about are not mine. My fear is of Him taking them too soon. I had an incident recently where I thought something bad happened to my boys and I blew up at God. It was a very low point in my faith and it has opened my eyes to my relationship with my Creator. I must be surrendered to His will in the life of my children. I must believe that it is far better than mine and if He takes them sooner than later He knows why. It is probably one of the hardest things for a parent to accept.
I was reading Jeremiah 27:4-11 and was blown away by his prophesy to Zedekiah King of Judah regarding King Nebuchannezer.
"Give them a message for their masters and say, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Tell this to your masters: With my great power and outstretched arm I made the earth and its people and the animals that are on it, and I give it to anyone I please. Now I will give all your countries into the hands of my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him. All nations will serve him and his son and his grandson until the time for his land comes; then many nations and great kings will subjugate him. “If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation with the sword, famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I destroy it by his hand. So do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams, your mediums or your sorcerers who tell you, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’ They prophesy lies to you that will only serve to remove you far from your lands; I will banish you and you will perish. But if any nation will bow its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will let that nation remain in its own land to till it and to live there, declares the LORD.”
I was like, "Say what?", then I thought about it. When we try and go against His will the results can be devastating and even cause our spiritual walk to end. There are situations and circumstances we need to pass through in order to complete God's will and reach the blessings in the end. Check out what God told Jeremiah later.
Jeremiah 27:19-22
"For this is what the LORD Almighty says about the pillars, the bronze Sea, the movable stands and the other articles that are left in this city, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away when he carried Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem— yes, this is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says about the things that are left in the house of the LORD and in the palace of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem: ‘They will be taken to Babylon and there they will remain until the day I come for them,’ declares the LORD. ‘Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’ ”
God always has an end game and it's always for His glory and our benefit. I want to do His will and pray that I never forget to look to His will.
Lots of Love,
The Clumsy Christian..
On this post are two screenshots from my morning Devotional, which inspired me to write this today.
The Devotional is called "Live Your Calling: What On Earth Am I Here For" by Pastor Rick and can be found on the Bible app.
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