We say the Lord’s Prayer so often that we sometimes ignore
the words. Jesus taught us how to pray
for a reason, and that’s why we should embrace every single word of this prayer
particularly those four words that give us the most trouble: thy will be done. It is so hard for us to let go. So hard to surrender. So hard to abandon ourselves into the arms of
our Father. Yet that is where we are
safe. That is where we are loved. Abandoning ourselves to the Father should be
so easy, but we make it so incredibly difficult because we don’t like to lose
control of our lives. We like being
independent, and selfishness places our will more often than not ahead of the
Father’s. That is when we get in
trouble. Unfortunately, it’s during the
most difficult and helpless moments of our lives that we have no problem
allowing God to take control. Why? Because when we are helpless we realize that
only he can help us, only he can save us, and only he can deliver us from
evil. It is so easy to pray “thy will be
done” when we are in desperate situations.
How about praying it and meaning it when things appear to be
normal? God’s will is perfect which is
why we pray for it to be done. So this
Lent, get out of God’s way and allow him to accomplish his will in you.
