Focus: I Will Do His Will

Text: Heb.10:7

"Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God."

George Washington said, "The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will." The Lord Jesus Christ came to earth for only one reason: to do the will of God. From cradle to grave the will of God was central and crucial to Him. He lived and died for God's will. All He said and did was by the will of God.

He learned obedience right here amongst us. In heaven there is no conflict or clash of wills. God's will decides and determines everything in heaven. Heavenly beings know and do only the will of God. No one's will in heaven is decisive and final outside of God. But here on earth several wills compete for attention and for supremacy. The will of God, the will of Satan, and the will of man are all at loggerheads, conflicting and clashing, one against another. Man is finding it extremely hard to do God's will in his earthly setting. He is caught in the middle in this battle of the wills.

It all started in the Garden of Eden, where Satan made the man to go against the creator's will. So Jesus came here to show us that amid the warfare of the wills, that it is possible to do the will of God here on earth, no matter what. We can settle for the will of God against all other wills, including one's own will. It is no wonder that Jesus taught us to pray, "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven" (Mt.6:10), and in Gethsemane he prays, "O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done" (Mt.26:46). His whole life on earth was a perfect reflection of the Father's will.

The important thing to know is that Jesus willingly did the will of His Father. He voluntarily and volitionally did everything God wanted.

It is by the offering of one's will to God that God's will can be done. Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, "Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will," and Spurgeon lends his voice by saying that "when your will is God's will, you will have your will." Make it your will, minute by minute and day by day, to do the will of God, for as Erwin McManus said, "To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous."

Just do one thing: offer your will to God, then doing His will, will not be a grievous burden.

by Bishop Moses E. Peter