God's Will

I suddenly woke last night by the sound of what I thought was a loud thump on my porch. I laid there and listened intently to see if I heard anything else... could it be an intruder? After hearing nothing more I was starting to drift back off to sleep and though I knew it was probably a raccoon or a cat, with my wife sleeping peacefully next to me I could not go back to sleep in good conscience without eventually getting up and checking things out. So I got out of bed and walked around the old dark house to see if anything was amiss. It wasn't. So I when back to bed but now I was awake. I tossed and turned. As so often happens, thoughts raced through my head mostly worries and dread. I did my usual trick of turning them off by aiming my thoughts to and about God. I have been attempting to learn the 23rd Psalm by memory so I ran what I could remember through my mind. I remember thinking about how it's comforting when we let God into our lives and rest in His will. And I wondered why we don't have God's will on earth all the time? Or do we? After that I prayed the Lord's prayer and I ran the first part about, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" over in my head a couple times. I thought, "See, we are asking God for that. If we're asking God for His will to be done on earth, it must be because its not here already." I considered the things that happen to us that make our lives so messy, like illness for example. It is surely not God's will to make us ill. And then it occurred to me, or should I say whispered into my mind that God's will does not so much come to us as it does come through us. We receive God's will when we reside in His kingdom. If we choose to live a Godly life we reap the benefits of God's will. Assuredly, God can step in and impose His will at anytime to those that don't yet have it, but I do not believe that that happens so much, or is supposed to happen so much as we are supposed to be living in it all the time.

One other thing; this is nothing new, it says it in the bible. People have been telling us this message in a multitude of ways from before the time of Jesus telling it. It's in the 23rd Psalm, it's our Constitution, it's in books like "As A Man Thinketh" by James Allen. It's in songs and even movies if we are not blind to it. God's will, please be done through me. Amen.

Godspeed!