Thy Will Be Done

Picture the scene. Jesus has been betrayed.  He goes out into the Mount of Olives to pray, He's in anguish and His sweat is like drops of blood.
He says in verse 42 in chapter 22 of Luke, "“Father, if You are willing, take this cup away from Me..." He asks God if He's willing, to take the cup away from Him... so that He carry the weight of the sin of the world on His shoulders. But then He adds, " —nevertheless, not My will, but Yours, be done.”"
Despite the anguish Jesus is feeling, despite the fact that He knows God's will is for Him to be the Ultimate Sacrifice for all mankind.... despite all of that He says, "not My will, but Yours, be done."
Often we pray the opposite, "My will be done, not Yours."  Jesus surrenders Himself to His Father's will.
Earlier in His ministry Jesus teaches His disciples how to pray... and in that prayer He says, "Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." (Matthew 6:9-13). And we see Him live that out later.

We're to follow His example.

One thing I love from the Gospels is that Jesus doesn't just tell his disciples what they should do... He models it for them. Jesus doesn't just tell us to obey God's will, but He lives that out Himself. He knows it's hard, He knows the struggle.

Hebrews 4:15, "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tested in every way as we are, yet without sin. "

That verse says that Jesus knows. He's been tested and is able to sympathize with us... and yet He is without sin. Submitting to God's will to never easy, but Jesus did.

Four years ago this past Sunday my family moved. My dad and mom were following God's will for him to serve as a pastor here. I knew that they were obeying God's will, but at the time I mostly recognized that I was leaving my friends. But God knew what He was doing. Looking back I can now see how God has been working these past few years.
Sometimes we don't see how things can be apart of God's will, but He has a plan. We just have to try to trust Him and surrender to His will. When we try to let our will be done everything goes wrong.

There's a song by Hillary Scott called Thy Will (click here to listen to it) and through the song she says that she's confused and that she doesn't understand. But she says thy will be done. A fact about this song is that she wrote it after having a miscarriage. She put her pain to paper and submitted to God saying thy will be done.


It's hard to follow God's will. It's hard to surrender and trust Him. But even if we can't do anything else, let's say thy will be done to God. We won't understand at the time of why these things are happening... but God has a plan.

Thy will be done