God’s Will or Yours? Luke 22:42
“God’s Will or Yours?”
” … not my will, but thine, be done.” Luke 22:42b
The crucified man approaches things with the same mind-
set. “Not my will, (I don’t have one) but Thine be done.” We
spend our lives making plans and trying to get God in on them!
We decide what we’re going to do and then try to get God to
bless it. That’s not the crucified life. That’s ambition! If you
check ambition out in your Bible, it’s not a healthy thing for a
child of God to be ambitious. Vision to do the will of God is
good, but ambition is self-seeking and sinful. He said in
Romans 6:11, “dead indeed unto sin. ” Buddy, if I am dead, I
am dead! I don’t have a program. There is no tomorrow for
self-will if I am practicing the crucified life. Most of us are
like the lost man in Luke 12-the rich fool saying, “I will build
greater barns. I will do this. I will go into semi-retirement. I
will eat, drink and be merry.”
By the way, ambition started with Lucifer. In Isaiah
14:12-14, Lucifer, the son of the morning, the anointed cherub
that fell, he did it. God never created the devil. He made the
covering cherub. Do you know how Lucifer became the
devil? He became a devil when he replaced the will of God
with his own will. Five times in Isaiah 14:12-14, he said, “I
will, I will, I will, I will, I will.” Let me ask you a question. If
replacing the will of God with his own will made a devil out of
him, what do you think it does to you? Self-exertion is not the
crucified life. Let God, Who is far wiser, make the plans for
your life … the crucified life. – D.C.
Prepared by Roger Fulk, from the “Baptist Bread” March 15, 2023 devotional by author DR. DENNIS CORLE, Evangelist, Claysburg, PA. With permission from Tim Green, editor Baptist Bread.
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