PLEASE READ THIS FIRST: Mark 14:32-36
What do you sense the Lord saying to you in this passage?
“Yet not what I will, but what you will.” (Mark? ?14:36?)
If I had what I wanted, things would be different.
That said, I doubt that things would be better.
My desires in the moment seem best, but are they?
Imagine if God had given me everything I prayed for?
I supposed I could keep on praying for God to fix what was bad.
But then my life would constantly flipflop, with God as my puppet.
I do not understand or always appreciate the mysteries of God’s will.
I ask ‘why God?’ just like others, and I DO NOT get it.
But I can appreciate the way Jesus surrenders his will to God’s.
In hindsight, I see how God’s will is what brings hope and salvation.
God’s best for all time was better than Jesus’s best for the moment.
Jesus teaches and models the way of surrender, which is not easy.
But in my head I know God’s best is better than mine.
Like Jesus, I do struggle; but I want to surrender to God’s best.
PRAYER
Lord, I pray this because I know I should, not because I want to. Not what I will, but what you will.
Jesus did it: “Yet not what I will, but what you will.” He followed God’s will and drank the cup of redemption – took our sin and paid it’s price: death! Lord, I have and still do at times spurn your will. I regret that and am trying not to anymore. Help me to seek your will at all times!
Take it to the Lord in prayer.
He hears.
All things are possible for God and yet all things I pray for are my ways and possibly not His.
The cup was not taken away from Jesus.
God answers prayers according to His will and not ours. He empowers us.
He answers us but not necessarily the way I prayed for. When praying for healing of a disease He may heal us by taking the disease from us or take us from the disease.
His will be done as we pray the Lord’s prayer.
1 Have thine own way, Lord!
Have thine own way!
Thou art the potter,
I am the clay.
Mold me and make me
after thy will,
while I am waiting,
yielded and still.
2 Have thine own way, Lord!
Have thine own way!
Search me and try me,
Savior today!
Wash me just now, Lord,
wash me just now,
as in thy presence
humbly I bow.
3 Have thine own way, Lord!
Have thine own way!
Wounded and weary,
help me I pray!
Power, all power,
surely is thine!
Touch me and heal me,
Savior divine!
4 Have thine own way, Lord!
Have thine own way!
Hold o’er my being
absolute sway.
Fill with thy Spirit
till all shall see
Christ only, always,
living in me!