“Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
—Matthew 6:10
The difficulty of the Christian life is living what we confess to believe. So often we want our will to be done and we lose sight of the truth that God’s will for us is holy, righteous, perfect, and acceptable (Romans 12:2). We easily forget that “we are not our own but belong to our faithful Savior Jesus Christ” (Heidelberg Catechism, Q&A 1). Therefore, we are called to live according to the will of our Master. It takes lifelong submission to His will to learn and live this truth and even then we fall woefully short. Praise God that our salvation is secured for us by the perfect law keeping life and sin atoning death of Christ, who said, ‘Behold, I have come; In the volume of the book it is written of Me; To do Your will, O God.'” (Heb. 10:7). Christ’s perfect righteousness is imputed to us by true faith and therefore we are not condemned because we are covered in the righteous perfection of our King, Jesus! Hallelujah! What a Savior!
I am not what I ought to be…
I am not what I want to be…
But, praise God, I am not what I used to be!
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Cor. 5:17).
—Pastor S. Henry