Being in agreement

“…your will be done…” Matthew 6.10

Many people tend to end their prayers with something like, “Not my will, but yours be done.” It does sound submissive and holy, and it also comes from the mouth of Jesus as he prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, but is it always an appropriate prayer? Since the whole of our lives are in submission to the Father, in this general sense it is an appropriate prayer. Yet praying along these lines can divert us from the fact that the Father has already revealed his will, and his desire is we catch it and bring it into being.

God has revealed his will through Jesus, who says he came to bring abundant life. This is not something Jesus decided to do for us; he came to do the Father’s will. Similarly, it says in 1 John 3.8 that the reason Jesus appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. Again, this was not something Jesus did on his own initiative; he came to do this because it was what the Father wanted.

When we ask for things in prayer, we are just not sure God wants to do them for us, and so we add a little prayer of submission in case he wants us to continue struggling on for a little while longer! We need to learn to pray this phrase of the Lord’s Prayer with conviction, “your will be done!” In other words, we align ourselves to the things Jesus came to do and we submit to this happening in our lives.

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