Today’s Devotion
Topic: An Essential Prayer
Text: 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.” Amen.
It’s been said that the best person to tell the use of an invention is the inventor himself. Without a doubt, every human being has been created for a purpose, and that purpose must have been fulfilled by the end of his or her life.
It is amazing, however, that very few of us actually make conscious efforts to know the purpose for which we exist in this world. So we can pursue it to the latter and render positive account when the Judge comes.
It is a fact that we are created with a free personal will, yet our Creator, who also has the master plan, desires us to follow Him and submit to His divine will for us, in every area of life. And has that not been our struggle all these years?
The Lord Jesus had known the Master plan for His life all along. So a few hours to His arrest and crucifixion, even though He desired to forgo the cup of suffering, He surrendered His will to the ULTIMATE WILL of the Almighty God.
About 33 years earlier, His mother Mary had responded to the angel sent to her by saying, “I am the Lord’s servant. Be it unto me according to your Word.” (Luke 1: 38)
Just like mother and Son, all God’s Children must return to that place where we can continually pray; “Lord, Let Your Will Be Done In My Life!” Because then, how we have made it these days is very wrong. Believing and doing whatever promises us personal satisfaction and gain, even if that very thing disregards, or is contrary to, the word of God.
Has our habit not rather been to make many plans on our own, as if to prove we are our own bosses and know the destination of life too. Till we failed miserably and were forced to acknowledge “it is the counsel and purpose of Jehovah that will prevail”? (Proverbs 19: 21).
Beloved, commit all your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed (Proverbs 16:3). Stop seeking your own way through issues and begin to pray that God’s will would be done in every aspect of your life. Click and be blessed: https://youtu.be/1JwVmrLkhcw
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