Our Lord's Full Will

We are midway through this week, keeping to our given, targeted focus, on our Lord, Jesus Christ, and how His will for a woman changed her completely.

From our Bible verse, we have, seen how Jesus saw the woman who did not see Him in her midst. We also noted that the woman was a person of double sorrow as she was walking a path she has once walked, with her first death, the death of her one and only husband. Now she is walking it with the death of her one and only son. 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.

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

Before we continue with the text and how it opens up Jesus’ will for us, through a widow, something has been laid upon me. It is our Lord’s will that we spend today’s devotion, realising, understanding and addressing a fundamental flaw in our dealings with God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – in our everyday understanding of His will for us and our understanding of His everyday will for us. I’m being personal here, as our Father in heaven brought me down, broke me down and took me down to face truth. It is truth about His relation with me and mine with Him, according to His will for me. This came about in the most unexpected manner, and it still has me surrendered and surrendering. I have been told to bring it to you because it is the exact erroneous understanding of many of you as well and your relationship with the will of our Father in heaven for you.

While being schooled about Jesus’ will for the woman and how it related to us, I received a call from a family member, a young man, who was visiting the island with a group of friends. They were all leaving a day ahead of him and he just wanted a place to overnight, as he was leaving the next morning. I immediately phoned a friend to assist me in preparing the room for him and she came without hesitation. That was all, I tell you, yet our Lord used it to totally take me down, when He spoke in these most convicting and piercingly sad tones. He showed me in clear light, where I had absolutely no defence, how I did not and do not see Him, as I see my earthly friends. He told me that the will of my friends is to help me in any way, big or small. For example, helping me to fix a little room, which takes about fifteen minutes to do, or helping me to clean an entire house, which takes practically an entire working day, is all in the will of that friend to help.

Do I see the Helper, the Holy Spirit, in the same way? His will is to help. His plan is to help. Jesus told us that He is sending Him to be our Helper, just as Jesus was in the flesh. However, there was I, free and confident to ask a friend for help in a small thing, yet I do not see it fit to ask God’s help in small things. I was shown something which I honestly cannot dispute. Perhaps it is the same with you. One grave error of mine, is to see our heavenly Father, who is Spirit, as Helper for impossible things, big things, things which are totally serious, so to speak. However, when it comes to lesser things, simple things, things which we determine in our minds, are not important to our Father and Lord, we place everyone and everything above Him.

O how we turn truth into untruth because of our deceptions about who our Father is to us. His will is to be our Helper in all things, big and small, heavenly and earthly, of the Spirit and of the flesh. As long as we place importance on our Lord’s will according to us and not according to Him, we completely forfeit the grace that has been given to us.

Let you and let me no longer be people of error, in our thinking of, and looking to, our Lord’s will for us in all things, significant or insignificant though it may seem to us.

Forgive us Holy Father and keep us ever mindful of Your total will for us. Amen!