transformation

(Psalms 143:10)  “Teach me to do your will, for you are my God!”

 

How often do we pray “thy will be done?” and yet when it doesn’t seem to line up with what we have imagined, we are perplexed. Or when we strip it down do we really mean, “my will be done”, just so long as I end the prayer with “your will be done”. It’s the understanding of alignment, look at the columns I have penned, perfect alignment, all it took was a click of a button and it snaps into place. Now that how we need to learn to pray, with perfect alignment. My will perfectly aligned with the will of my Father. I know that the Spirit within is perfectly aligned, it’s just my mind that gets in the way. Why? Because it was originally a slave to sin. So what needs to happen? The solution is simple, but not easily applied; “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” (Romans 12:2) – There is a part of us that does not want to let go of the world, we all have something drawing us in. The part that gets in the way of “thy will be done”. Let’s use the Covid pandemic as an example, we pray “please remove it”, when in fact God has allowed it to happen and its here to stay. Or we pray “heal that person” when in fact they have now reached the end of their allotted time here on earth. Think on the upcoming tribulation that the world will face, it was scripted by God before the foundations of the world, it will happen! So, no matter how much praying we may do to stop those events in their tracks is futile. A good example would be Peter trying to stop the high priests servant Malchus from arresting the Lord, he cut off his ear and it’s the Lord’s rejoinder that we need to value; “So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?”” (John 18:11) – The Christian must follow and find grace to drink the cup that they face. Do you see the difference in approaches? We always jump into our heads and we make rash decisions on what we think is best and therefore we want a certain outcome to happen. YOU’RE WILL, not necessarily God’s will. The man Jesus was the master at this, he was all about the will of His Father. Thank God he is gracious with us all, our minds need to be cranked into gear to understand the importance of this lesson. “Renewing of our minds to coincide with the will of our heavenly Father”. Everything and I mean everything else in our lives is just a means to get us to this end; “thy will be done!"       

 

Life teaches us so many lessons in our secular worlds that we must learn to treasure, and when viewed correctly they will point us heavenward...

 

Teaching a child to hone a skill, we give them a box of coloured crayons and a colouring book, and at fist there is just splurges of different colour randomly celebrating their excitement, but eventually they begin to colour within the lines and at their peak there is no breech. This is a lesson we will value if we begin to differentiate between wills. At first we are all over the place with our prayers and then as we mature we  begin to mimic the Lord’s Prayer in the Garden; “And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”  (Matthew 26:39) 

 

In conclusion, instead of spending so much time trying to change a situation, let us rather learn to apply our minds though the opportunities within the calamity to bring God the Glory. If God has ordained something, only the fool would try to overturn His will. And yet throughout the ages Satan has aligned individuals to do exactly that, to try and thwart the will of God. Now that is an impossible task. My prayer Father is this, “thy will be done” and help me find the grace to endure whilst conforming my mind into accepting with gladness whatever I need to go through so that you may be glorified, Amen and Amen!

 

“To the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.”

 

Signing out

 

Tyrone