Are You Willing His Will?
Matthew 6:25-34 Amplified Bible (AMP)
25Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing? 26Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they? 27And who of you by worrying and being anxious can add one unit of measure (cubit) to his stature or to the span of his life? 28And why should you be anxious about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field and learn thoroughly how they grow; they neither toil nor spin. 29Yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his magnificence (excellence, dignity, and grace) was not arrayed like one of these. [I Kings 10:4-7.] 30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith? 31Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear? 32For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all. 33But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides. 34So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.
My daughter and I went to see her school counselor last week. For weeks I had been telling her to write out her goals and to really pray and ask God to give her wisdom as to which way to go. You see my daughter is multitalented. She has been drawing diagrams of houses for years; in addition to that she has a love of foreign languages, culture and lifestyles. If all of that was not enough she has owned her own little catering business since she was sixteen years old, and she is an excellent baker and cook. Instead of writing it all down, she devised her plan and went full steam ahead into the counselors office, thank God she did pray so the whole process was not as over whelming as it could have been. When she sat down and the counselor pulled up her records and found she was a culinary arts major, she was fine, and began talking to her about that course study, but then she looked at my daughters placement exam scores. She looked up and asked her “why are you here?” I thought oh my, tough counseling 101 is about to start. She said “I want to enroll in school.” The counselor looked at her again and said “really why are you here?” She said, “I want to start school.” She said “well first off you are going backwards, because your test scores were on the level and above of someone attending a four year school not a junior college, and then she asked why she was a culinary arts major with all of that in her?” Her face dropped as she relayed to her counselor that she owned her own business for over two years and baked and catered.” Again the counselor asked her a few simple questions, she asked her the difference between chopping and dicing, and the different methods in which you could separate an egg to which my daughter told her three different ways. Again she asked “why are you here, because you know what to do and these are things that she would learn in their culinary arts program, and you will be wasting your mother’s benefits and money.” I sat silent, realizing that my daughter wanted her will, but the counselor wanted her to realize her potential and what was going to maximize her knowledge base and her strengths. My daughter then began to pour out of her heart the truth of her desire to attend William and Mary and to become an architect with a minor in foreign language or linguistics. Now it was about facing what she feared and moving into her real destiny. The counselor lovingly but sternly told her to get her buns to William and Mary and find out what she needed to get in, and apply and get busy, but to take the classes they outline that are needed to make her a better candidate for admittance, until she was able to get in.
My daughter was now pushed into a place of praying harder, not “my” will God but yours be done, show me what it is that you have for me. In those moments and as we walked back to car, she looked shell shocked she looked and felt overwhelmed because she had to face the truth of who she really was and the wealth that lay within her that she was not willing to see and accept that I had told her continually but she needed to hear from someone else. My daughter was like many of us, we are scared to will God’s will for us and pray for God’s will because we fear if we will be able to handle it or operate in it. But she had been equipped, she was home schooled and had many life lessons incorporated with her academic environment that had prepared her well for the future. We too have been homeschooled and we have had many life lessons that have prepped us for the destiny and work of the Lord. But we are not secure enough in the fact that whom God has called He has equipped. We don’t trust that what God has called us to He will grace us to handle and to successfully master. That is why we will not will His will into our lives, that is why we refuse to pray God your will be done in our lives. We fear the unknown; we feel that we are ill prepared for what we will face because we fear that it is beyond our ability to handle it. Well honestly it is, that is why we have the greater one that lives in us, and so that we can rely heavily I might add upon Him to make us successful in all that He has called us to do. Our will is limiting and limited, but God’s will within us is limitless and takes limits off of what we are capable of obtaining or that God is able to use us to do.
Are we willing His will? Are we asking for His will to be done in us, no matter what? Or are we letting fear, people’s words, our life experiences and lack of dictate what we pray and how we respond to the will of God for our lives? For many of us, the answer is yes we are, we are frozen with fear, or over thinking the situation by way too much. Remember God’s thoughts are far above our and His way of doing things is too, especially when it comes to using us and equipping us for Kingdom’s work. Just like that counselor was able to identify what was in my daughter, so God is far beyond able to do the same. It is time to get off the my will and way highway and onto the will of God freeway, that takes the limits off and allow us to reach our destination in Him without limitations of us!
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