Jesus' Will Is To Light Dark Paths

We commence today’s receiving, clear in our minds that no distinctions are being made between Jesus’ plans for us and His will for us. We also come surrendered, as we continue to accept, by faith, that our Heavenly Father’s will for us is in the ordinary, everyday, things of life also. Let us forever, with our lips and with our saved lives, give our Father in heave unending praise and thanks that His will for us spans the small and mundane as much as it does the very important things.

Holy Lord God, we surrender to You, for You care about each of us whom You have called Your own. Who is a God like You, to care for us mortals in the minutest detail, as You care for us in eternal life matters? Thank You that Your will encompasses all of us in our human situations. Amen!

Believer, as we carry on hearing and receiving in faith and trust, we continue to note Jesus’ will for this widow. Keep ever in mind that Jesus is taking the lead in all that is happening, for He is working His will on a person who has not even asked Him to do a thing for her. Think about it! See clearly how Jesus is working His will out without even an ounce of assistance from the widow.

When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said to her, Do not weep. Luke 7: 13.

Jesus saw a woman who was walking a dismally dark road. 

Jesus is looking at a woman who is walking this sad, dark path for the second time. What path is this? It is the path which death commands and demands. It is the road to the burial of the dead.

Once before, we don’t know how long ago or short ago it was, this woman walked the same dark path to bury her husband. Yes, this woman was a person of double sorrow, as she was walking a path she had once walked, with her first death, the death of her one and only husband. Now, she is walking the exact path with the death of her one and only son.  It was a dark and scary; lonely and dreary; sorrowful and distressing path for the widow. The will of Jesus was, not to only notice the woman, but He went further and stopped, or halted His planned business for a time, to give His all to that grieving widow.

We have already explained the word, widow, in this sharing, and how its deeper, spiritual meaning includes all people. It therefore means that this offering and all the others already shared and those to come, are for all people, both male and female.

As I am being taught on this particular subject, my cell phone rings. It is a very dear friend from my home island. She has called to inform me of the sudden passing of her son. In this sad and shocked time, listening to her on the phone, one of the things that stuck with me as we spoke for a while, was the picture she gave of her husband. She painted a sad picture of him, not unlike that of the widow in our text. She spoke much about his inabilities, his sadness and his ever growing silence. O how I saw this widow in my friend’s husband.  She agonized about his inability to do much. Indeed, she painted a picture of a grieving person, not unlike the widow. Indeed, she painted a picture of a grieving person, not unlike the widow. Truly, the image of the sad and grieving widow can be seen in men.

When we look at the widow in her first sorrow, we note that in the midst of great grief, pain and sadness, she still had some comfort, some light as it were, for she still had her son. Today, this is not the case. Today, she is walking the same path, which has become doubly dismal. It is a path so abysmally dark in her heart, she is unable to see the Light in her midst.

Will you not behold, the Jesus of that sad-hearted woman? He is your Jesus too. The compassion He had for her included understanding fully her lack of sight to see Him in her midst. His compassion is not only filled with understanding, but it is a living, active compassion, that makes everything different. Jesus’ compassion for this widow transcends all human limits and laws. In the midst of uncontrollable and inconsolable, depressing, inner darkness of heart, mind, body and soul, Jesus breaks through. The compassion of Jesus touches a grief-darkened heart and changes it with three words, Do not weep. 

Whoever you are at this moment, regardless of the death path you may be walking, Jesus’ will does not change. His will is, and will always be, to be your compassionate Lord. The death in loss, any kind of loss, is never overlooked by our God of all compassion.