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Director of Contemporary Worship and Assistant Director of Student Ministries at Castleton United Methodist Church in Indianapols, IN. Husband,Guitarist,and Drummer
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Your Will Be Done...

8:59 AM | Posted by Joe Garrison | Edit Post
A lot of us have been in a church worship service and recited the Lord's prayer in unison with the congregation. I grew up my entire life reciting this prayer in church, most of the time in a monotone, uninterested manner. I always made fun of it because we all sounded like a bunch of mindless zombies as we recited, "Our Father, who art in heaven...".

I taught on this prayer a few weeks ago at our high school Bible study. One section that has been particularly convicting for me, and I think (maybe hope) for the students, has been the "your will be done" line. Here is the entire prayer (ESV)...

Our father, in heaven
Hallowed be your name
Your kingdom come
your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
and forgive us our debts
as we also have forgiven our debtors
And lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
As I was studying this prayer the line "your will be done" struck me particularly hard. As I thought about Jesus' example of prayer for my life I realized how often I bark orders at God and completely ignore His will.

As I prayed for things in my life whether for myself, or others I often told God what I wanted to happen and ignored his specific will for events and circumstances in my life and others.

One thought that particularly struck me was that God's will for my life, or yours, may not include us having a long life. Sometimes our death, or another's death, is God's will and is something he will use or the advancement of His kingdom.

Often when someone gets deathly sick we pray for a miracle or their healing (which in itself is completely appropriate, God works miracles!), what we don't pray is "God, please work a miracle and heal this person...but if Your will is their death for the benefit of Your kingdom...not my will but Your own."

Praying "Your will be done" can be terrifying at times. It takes all the control out of our hands (as if we had any in the first place).

How often do you pray "Your will be done"? What thoughts and fears keep you from praying that prayer?
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