Jayamsih..! Welcome to today’s devotion!
Not my will
John 5:30,6:38
- A believer must put away his will, even if he is doing good. Many times people use circumstances to exclude faith, and end up on their own terms. Do not participate in decisions with your will and do not delay obedience. Your desire has nothing to do with God’s call. Your will is coming to Calvary and saying, not my will, but yours begins there.
Human desires have plagued the human race for years. I need to exercise my faculties but not my will. I make my faculties available for God’s will. God calls. He calls you to faith without visible evidence. Consider the reality that people are not saved because they see Jesus Christ. They are saved because they believe what He said, what He did, without seeing Him. A man is saved because he believes in His gospel and responds to it. He does not wish for salvation. He believes that it is and that Christ is real, and then God wills to save him and beget him by the will of God (James 1:18). God does not rely on man’s willpower for salvation because it ends up going to something that does works. That man only needs to come and God gives him by will.
This is not only true for salvation but also for discipleship. In the final analysis your desire has nothing to do with discipleship. Jesus himself said, “Not my will, but yours, be done” (Luke 22:420). Note that Jesus Christ was sinless and yet He never once made a decision based on His own will.
Today’s reading passage: Isaiah 19-21