Daily Grace At
Jesus` FeetJanuary
25, 2010
“Father…..I want Your Will to be done, not mine.” – Mark 14:36
God is our maker. He created us in His own image and when He created us he had a clear blue print of our lives and how he expected us to turn out. His plans are always to glorify His Name. We are engraved in His palms. As we grow and yield our lives to Him, He can take us melt and mold us into the perfect shape he desired for our lives. When in His times, God sent His Son Jesus Christ, He sent Him for a clear purpose. To fulfill God’s purpose and plans Jesus Christ yielded His life in humble obedience to His Father’s will and accomplished God’s plan for His life and redeemed the World. God honored His Son for His successful accomplishment in fulfilling God’s plan for His life. During the time Jesus was physically present in this world, He travelled around the world doing goodness and trusting the One who sent Him. He was scorned for doing good. He was humiliated, He was mistreated, He was slandered yet Jesus Christ patiently endured all His sufferings and committed to His Father. Jesus pattern of prayer in every difficult circumstances was “Father, Let Your Will be Done.” As we read in Mark 14:36: “Abba, Father,” he cried out, “everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.” Before the hours of deep agony and just before He was betrayed and arrested, He went to olive grove called Gethsemane with His disciples, Peter, James, and John and went to the another side littler farther than where His friends seated and started praying committing Himself to His Father’s Will. He was deeply “troubled and distressed.” He told them, “My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death.” Whenever, he was crushed with pain and hurt and deeply disturbed, as a human, unable to control his situation, He committed himself to God’s Will. He never tried to control his circumstances. Jesus Christ, cried out and said, if there are ways this situation may be taken away from me, let it be, but not according to what I desire, but according your plan let it happen to me. In every situation, we need to learn from Jesus Christ, the strategy to face stressful situations. Are you crushed and stressed out today with joblessness? Is this recession hard on you? Are you distressed with relationship issues? Are you filled with sorrow for the loss of dear ones? Say now, “I want your will to be done.” Stressfulness is always very tough to deal with. With our human wisdom it is impossible to cross the cliff. If we depend on our own strength and other worldly resources, it may still be difficult to release the stress from our minds. Do you know stress is a major cause of most diseases? Rev. Bill Bratley, in his sermon highlights three types of stresses we go through in our lives. 1. Uncontrollable situations. This stress comes from circumstances we cannot control and it is indeed out of our control. As you are heading to work, an accident causing major delays on the high way or a punctured tire as you are rushing to an important meeting at work. The flight delayed landing due to poor weather conditions. Due to the troubled economy joblessness or it could be loss of loved ones. 2. Uncooperative people. There are folks around you who do not get what you have in mind. There are people who are determined to voice against your decisions and no matter how nice you are to them; they are always cranky or ungrateful. They are not going to change and you have to simply go along with it. 3. Unexplainable pain. You may find medications for explainable physical pains. But there will be always pains that can make no sense; it will be there for a while and goes away, adding stress to us making us wonder, “Would it be because of this or that?” We tend to get answers googling and add more stress for the things that may not happen. The only best way to our uncontrollable stresses is to yield and surrender our lives to God's Will and say, “Lord, let your Will be done.” We get so much peace when we surrender these uncontrollable stresses and anxieties to God in prayer. Did this not emphasized by the Apostle Paul in Philippians 4:6-7. He said, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
Once on a sea course,
the
captain of the ship looked into the dark night and saw faint lights in
the
distance. Immediately he told his signalman to send a message" "Alter
your course 10 degrees south." Promptly a return message was received:
"Alter your course 10 degrees north." The captain was angered; his
command had been ignored. So he sent a second message: "Alter your
course
10 degrees south--I am the captain!" Soon another message was received:
"Alter your course 10 degrees north--I am seaman third class Jones."
Immediately the captain sent a third message, knowing the fear it would
evoke:
"Alter your course 10 degrees south--I am a battleship." Then the
reply came "Alter your course 10 degrees north--I am a lighthouse."
In the midst of our
dark
and foggy times, all sorts of voices are shouting orders into the
night,
telling us what to do, how to adjust our lives. Out of the darkness,
one voice
signals something quite opposite to the rest--something almost absurd.
But the
voice happens to be the Light of the World, and we ignore it at our
peril
(Credit: Paul Aiello, Jr.)
Surrender to the
Maker’s
Will and wait in His presence to get not only directions but peace to
navigate
your life in this world.
Let it be the "Maker’s Will" and not "My
Will"!
May you have a great
Day!
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