GOD'S WILL?

GOD’S WILL?

Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Matthew [MKJV] chapter 6:7 [Jesus explained] … when you pray, do not babble vain words, as the nations. For they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard. Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask Him. Therefore pray in this way: Our Father, who is 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 forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil. For Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

  Our congregation again recently prayed the above prayer. Which once again set my cranial contents to pondering “Thy will be done on earth as in heaven” means what?

  My observation is prayers hoping for or expecting healing, repair, reestablishment, rebuilding, return; good results by hoper and expectee standards. And I certainly am often of such ilk.

  But doesn’t His will include what Solomon noted in his Book of Ecclesiastes and Word O.T & N.T. history recorded; Impairment, sickness, death, destruction, with economies, nations, cultures, assemblies failing, scattered, even becoming extinct?

  Once again I came to the same conclusions;

·         God’s will observably includes both soar and sink.

·         I am to accept inviolability of His is the kingdom.

  Trust!

EBB4