"Do we really want God’s will?" -- Jerry McGlothlin
"Do we really want God's will?"
By Jerry McGlothlin, Op-ed contributor
ChristianPost,
We say we want God's will. We sing about it. We preach it. We pray it. But if we're being honest — brutally honest — we usually want God's will only if it aligns with ours. The moment His will calls us out of our comfort zone, into obedience that might cost us our ambitions, relationships, or conveniences, we wince. We resist. We delay. We negotiate.
And then we wonder why there's no power in our lives or our churches.
The ouch factor
Let's face it: many seeker-sensitive churches are full because they tell us what we want to hear — not what we need to hear. They package God's love like a feel-good brand and edit out the call to die to self.
But Jesus didn't say, "Follow Me and I'll grant all your dreams." He said, "If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me" (Luke 9:23).
That's not a message that draws crowds unless the Holy Spirit is doing the drawing. It's painful. It's humbling. It puts to death the idol of self-will.
Can we trust God's will?
Do we truly believe that God can do anything? Not just in theory, but in our day-to-day decisions?
Do we truly believe "His will is perfect" — so perfect, in fact, that ours cannot possibly improve upon it? That He knows what we don't, sees what we can't, and always has our best in mind, even when His answers to our prayers feel like silence, delay, or denial?
If we're praying with clenched fists, trying to get God to conform to our desires, then we're not praying ...
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