Let Your Will Be Done

Let Your Will Be Done

Category : Lent Devotions

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Tim was preparing to buy an expensive book that had over a thousand pages, so he decided to read a book review online. His research led him to two reports. One was based on only reading a random page in the middle of the book. The other was based on reading the whole book. Without hesitation, most of us would recommend that Tim should select the report that was based on reading the whole book, because we’re aware that no matter what insights one has from a page, the insights are limited to only a page.

However, in life we hesitate most of the time between trusting someone who is limited by time and someone who is not. Someone who was there in the beginning, is here now and who is there at the end. We would rather choose to rely on our limited knowledge of what life is (reading a page) as compared to the One that knows everything about life (reading the whole book).

We hesitate because from our perspective it is hard to see any good come out of the situation or we believe that our plans are the most optimal. As humans it is impossible to understand the plans of a Divine Being living outside of time (except upon revelation), because that is something we can never experience. We may not always understand God’s Will, but what we know is the end result. We know that His plans are good. We know his plans are for us and not against us. So we can rest in not always understanding his plans because we know that they are for good. Let’s not dwell on our own understanding because we know nothing compared to God, so we should always seek for His will to be done in our lives. Jesus said, “Yet not what I will, but what you will” (Mark 14:36), which suggests that Jesus surrenders His Will and takes on God’s Will. God’s will may sometimes be in line with events you love or events you would rather stay away from, events you understand or events you do not understand.

God’s will is good and that’s all we need to know to dive head first into accepting His plans. If Tim based his perception of an expensive book on a report that is based on 0.001 percent of a book, we would think that it was outrageous. We should not do that with our lives.

Father, yet not what I will, but what you will. Amen.