The Will and The Prayer

Jesus knew his assignment from the inception of his birth. His destiny and purpose were clearly mapped out. He knew and accepted the assignment to come and show mankind the way. He accepted the responsibility and that became his will and declaration through out his time on earth. Jesus was born for a purpose and the same can be said of us

‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart’ (Jeremiah 1 Vs 5)

God would not have sent Jesus if he (Jesus) wasn't willing to be the LAMB OF GOD for mankind. God does not coerce or make us do anything contrary to our wishes. We are created responsible, with the right to choose and the ability to decide who we are and who we choose to become. When we decide, he enables us accomplish our intentions, desires, purpose and will. These are laid in our hearts to fulfill but not until we step into the acceptance and responsibility of our purpose that God ‘shows up’. Our highest (true) desires are his will to empower and help us accomplish.

Jesus at the highest accomplishment of his birth and purpose is written to have prayed at Gethsemane

 ‘My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken away from me. Yet not as I will but as you will’ (Matthew 26 Vs 39).

By this prayer, he wasn't registering a reluctance or an absence of his will to bear the cross set before him. He wasn't asking for a way out of the purpose he came to accomplish either; he was simply having a ‘human experience'. That point when we look at the responsibility of the task or sacrifice before us and balk at it even for a brief moment. That in my opinion was the experience of Jesus in the moment. He was preparing for his highest assignment; crucifixion on the cross at Calvary. A responsibility he had accepted in oneness with God and for a moment he showed ‘human weakness’ in human form.  

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” - Teilhard de Chardin

The prayer of Christ that night in the garden of Gethsemane draws an understanding that when our desires and will are in alignment with God, the will of God is no different from ours but IS ultimately greater in its accomplishments.

As Jesus prayed the Gethsemane prayer, he was asking for strength from the Father to fulfill a purpose that will impact humanity and redirect the course of our relationship with God, ourselves and with others. He was asking for grace and God’s enabling power to pull off a life changing purpose. He was defining THE WAY, THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE.

The purpose of his birth and life was for a solution; to bridge the gap between mankind and God the creator. He became our example and set his will a sacrifice for humanity. He came and exemplified the divine nature of God in human form and the love of God to mankind, a sacrifice steeped in love.

As the examples of Christ show, when we then pray, what are we asking of God concerning our desires, will and purpose? 

Have we identified our will and do we know it to be in alignment with God? 

Do we understand where our desires spring from? 

What are we asking grace and strength for? 

What are you asking God for help or to enable you accomplish or become?

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” - Henry David Thoreau

The will of God does not deny nor excuse us from the responsibility and the choice to choose and decide. When our desires and intentions are in line with GOD’S WILL and these desires are true, springing from love to self and ultimately towards others then we have engaged his will and have his help. He made everything (all things) available in abundance from the time of creation. 

To align our will within the grand will and desire of God we need to come into the KNOWLEDGE of self (who we are) to the UNDERSTANDING of our desires, will and purpose, the VALUE of our desire and intentions to God and mankind (humanity) and their FOUNDATION. Are these intentions and desires a self serving wish or a will springing from love?

We are in the season of celebrations, the remembrance and joy of the birth of Christ and the beginning of a brand New Year. A season and time of good will, kind wishes, prayers and love, a period of preparations and preparedness.  

As you celebrate and look ahead to the coming year, 

what are you celebrating of yourself? 

What are your intentions, desires, will and purpose going into the New Year? 

What solutions and examples can you achieve or become? 

How aware are you of the resources and abilities you have to impact your life positively and others? 

What is your relationship with God, yourself and others? 

What is the founding bedrock of your thoughts, intentions and desire? 

In this New Year, what will you accomplish and be celebrated for? Remember, the will of God does not deny nor excuse us from the responsibility and the choice to choose, decide and put actions to our will.

Wishing everyone the best compliments of this Season of love and a purpose filled, productive New Year!  

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