Most people who profess Christianity are probably familiar with the Lord’s Prayer. Matt 6:9-15. Today we are going to focus on verse 10.
Matt 6:10 says, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in Earth as it is in heaven.”
Jesus taught the disciples to pray that God’s will would be done. In heaven God’s will is done constantly. Jesus himself has always obeyed God His Father perfectly. He wants us to desire to have that same obedience towards God.
To be obedient means we must reject what we think is best for us. We must reject our own will and submit ourselves unto the will of God and the teachings of His Son Jesus Christ.
When the kids were young at home I used to play a fun little game with them called the obedience game. I would have a few of them sit down on the floor, then I would command the children to stand up. They would stand up. I would command the children jump up in the air. And the children would jump up in the air. I always told them that is what we call obedience. I told them I’m just your earthly dad but that’s the way we want to treat Jesus and God the Father when we look into His holy scriptures.
God is very pleased when we are obedient to Him. After all how does it make a parent feel when their children are disobedient? It hurts, doesn’t it?
The word obey means to comply with the direction command or request of someone who is your authority. It also means to carry out a command or instruction by those who are your authority.
If people profess Christianity as their faith and they pray the Lord’s Prayer, they should understand that God wants you to be obedient to what Jesus taught. Instead of our will being done it’s putting ourselves into subjection and doing God’s will.
There are numerous people today who profess Christianity who really don’t want to obey the teachings of the bible. To do so would mean that they might have to change their lifestyle. They would have to alter things that they have become accustomed to.
Jesus knows what’s best for us. He calls each of us too a certain purpose in our lives. If we never obey him we cannot fulfill that purpose and calling. If we truly are going to pray thy will be done, you need to examine if what you are doing is your will or the will of Christ found in the Bible.
Matt 21:28 – 32 28 But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. 29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. 30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. 31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.
Notice what happened in this story. One son said that he’d do it but he never did. The other son said he wouldn’t do it but then he did it. It’s the son who finally obeyed who was blessed by God.
The Lord teaches that if we truly love him we will obey Him and keep His Commandments. (John 14:15) Why claim to be a follow of Christ but you don’t obey? (Luke 6:46) Either you serve sin, or you serve obedience. (Roman’s 6:16) It doesn’t matter what somebody may profess. Only those who do the will of God are going to finally enter into heaven. (Matthew 7:21)
Luke 8:15 ” But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.”
So the Christian Life is a life of obedience. If we make a mistake along the way we can come boldly to the throne of grace in time of need, but we want to take the grace that we’ve been given and use it as a springboard of opportunity to submit to God’s will, and someday to please Him perfectly.
God loves us so much and sent his only begotten son to die on the cross for our sins. We show God how much we love Him by becoming obedient to the teachings of His Son. Are you praying “thy will be done”? Are you attempting to do His will in your daily living?
In love, Eric
Teufer Lake King James Bible Church 