Thy Will Be Done

Scripture Texts: Matthew 6:9-10; John 4:34; 5:19, 30-31

Have you ever had to deal with a strong-willed child?  How many of you were that strong-willed child?  Any body here want to confess to still being a strong-will child?

It’s worse than you think.  We actually live on a strong-willed planet.  All our trouble started with the words, “I will…”  Listen to this description of Satan in Isaiah 14:

Isaiah 14:12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! …
13 You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’
15 But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.

Five times he says, “I will.”  Someone has said the definition of hell is, “My will be done.”

We live on a strong-willed planet filled with seven billion strong-willed people who are all saying, “I will…” or “My will be done.”

Jesus teaches us another way to pray.  And the prayer He teaches us is so radical it rocks our world and turns everything upside down.  He says, the definition of heaven is, “Thy will be done.”  “What?  Not my will be done?  Wait a minute, that isn’t what I bargained for.  Isn’t this my life and don’t I know what’s best?  Doesn’t my happiness hinge on me getting what I want?”

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