His Will be Done-DD 9/15/2010

"we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding," Col 1:9

Throughout our lives we have been taught to rely on self. We are raised with the concept that if we would simply do what is necessary to achieve our goals, be they relational, financial, professional or physical, we will get what is coming to us. We have an innate sense of fairness and propriety, always aware of what others are getting compared to what we ourselves are receiving. When we ultimately do achieve or receive, we are seldom satisfied, but instead widen our gaze to drive us to even more.

I don't know about you, but all of that sounds rather self serving to me. We may have been taught that by family, academia and society, but we were not taught that by God. Everything we know about Him speaks of love, kindness, benevolence and service to others. In fact He has said that it is impossible to truly love Him without loving each other. These are the things for which we should strive.

Beloved our goals should not be shaped as if we are citizens of this world, but citizens of heaven. Once we have come to a belief and knowledge of the existence of God, we should seek His will at all costs. Though life is but a vapor, eternity is longer time than we can imagine. If we expect to spend it in the splendor of His grace, determining and living His will to the best of our ability should be everything to us. If we were filled with spiritual wisdom and understanding, we would realize that all we strive for and receive belongs to God anyway. He provides for all of our needs whether we acknowledge this or not.

When thinking about our fleshly mindset, perhaps the reason why we sometimes struggle so mightily with even the concept of God is because He really is too good to be true. He offers more than we can imagine free of charge and makes it available to us through no effort or deserving of our own. I suppose we could struggle with that, but why? Sometimes we just need to say "Thank You" and decide to live our lives with the attitude of gratitude.

In Revival,

Lee