Thy Will Be Done

Ps. {40:8} I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.

Ps. {143:10} Teach me to do thy will; for thou [art] my God: thy spirit [is] good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

Matt. {6:10} Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it is] in heaven

Matt. {26:42} He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.

Luke {11:2} And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

Heb. {10:5} Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: {10:6} In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure. {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. {10:8} Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure [therein;] which are offered by the law; {10:9} Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. {10:10} By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all. ]


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I delight to do thy will oh my God, yea thy law is withing my heart.
Teach me to do thy will for thou art my God they spirit is good lead me into the land of the uprightness.
He went away again the second time and prayed saying oh my Father if this cup may not pass away from me except I drink it, thy will be done.
When ye pray...Our Father which art in heave hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come, thy will be done, as in heaven so in earth.

Jesus came to do God's will, delighting in His Father's will.

Jesus became the sacrifice for us so that we would no longer have to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.

The greatest sacrifice of all was made and nothing could compare to the ultimate sacrifice.

Every single sacrifice made was pointing to the ultimate sacrifice. When a person sinned and brought an offering to be sacrificed, a death to be made on their behalf it was of an animal and symbolic of the fact sinning warrants death and there is no getting around that, none. You sin, you deserve death unless you confess and repent offering a death in your place. The offering of an animal's death was sufficent only because God accepted it but it wasn't enough, it represented the ultimate sacrifice He made when His son took on humanity and offered himself, His death was made for all of us.

Maybe we'd think twice before sinning if we had to kill an animal. Or maybe it would be just a way of life to us so that the animal's death wouldn't be so bad- not like we might consider it today, or some of us. There are hunters today that think nothing of killing rabbit, deer, quail, duck, squirrels etc. It's sport to them. Then there are butchers who slaughter animals for us to eat, there are farmers who grow livestock knowing it's all for food. More animal death that means little, it's done as a matter of fact and an every day occurance. So maybe if someone told those who have no ick factor in killing animals that all they had to do was kill an animal every time they sinned and confess their sins, repenting, it wouldn't be all that hard for them to do. But for a lot of us it wouldn't be a way of life and we might realize more the weight of our sin causing death.

Now while a lot of various people in various professions and hobbies kill animals it's safe to say the majority do not kill people.

Those who do kill people are those in the army on active duty, police officers in the line of duty, murderers, and all those who accidentally kill another. Of all those only the murderers do so without the remorse, or at least we'd like to think that. Not that we want those who kill in the line of duty to be consumed by guilt, but it's nice to at least believe there is a twinge of remorse for their hands being forced into killing in the line of duty.

Sinning warrants sacrifice.

Sinners were given the greatest sacrifice in Jesus. Jesus wouldn't have had to die if we didn't sin. We killed Him. Our sin killed Him.

If we had to nail Jesus to the cross ourselves would we feel the true weight of our sins?

If we had to look upon His broken and bruised, His bloody body, witness to His agony and then add to that pain until He was killed by us, would it make a difference?

God's will be done.

Our will is so caught up in selfishness, by the very words- our will - we esteem ourselves, our finite, sin-filled selves to have a will greater than God's.

In all our lives it must be prayed, and it must be believed- 'Thy will be done.' It must be prayed and without clauses such as, Thy will be done but let me understand how Your will works, why this, that, and the other thing has to be so Your will is done. We can't expect to understand but we have to take that leap of faith and believe that God's will is truly best and beyond our comprehension.

God- Thy will be done now and forever and any tears I cry because I cannot understand the will of Yours that allows for so much pain please Lord they are not shed because I don't want Your will to be done, but simply because the pain now even temporarily is so real. You see the end from the beginning and I place my trust in You Lord because I see only now, I live only now with hopes for life eternal in You. In an existence that has expelled sin from the world and there is no more pain- physical, mental, or emotional.

Thy will be done.

By the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, forgive me.

Amen.