His will

“Yet not my will, but yours be done.”

How often do I do my will?  A whole lot more often than I do His will. Why is that?  I know He has a plan for everyone and everything.  I know He hears my prayers.  I know He sent His only Son to die in the cross for all my past, present, and future sins. So, why? 

I am human.  We are all human and as such, fallen and sinful. My Spirit wants to do one thing, God's will, and my flesh, my human side, wants to do everything but that. What a struggle! 

Yet,  as I look at Jesus in the garden just before Judas betrays Him, He, too, was struggling with His humanness which wanted to skip the suffering.  His final decision,  however,  which changes everything for all of us, was “Yet not my will, but yours be done.”

So, Jesus struggled, also. That thought does not make my struggles any easier to overcome, I think, but they do make more sense.  If God's own Son struggled, well then I should not expect to be exempt or to think I am a horrible person because I struggle with doing what is God's will rather than my own.  

As always, God gives us what we need in every circumstance.  So, I will struggle, and sometimes I will do God's will and sometimes I will fail, but God always loves me, and I love Him. 

Hmm. That seems very much like how my family works!