Today during my prayer time I was reminded of a recommended prayer, "Oh Lord, incline my heart to do your will.
For me, I think I would rephrase it to: Oh Lord, help me to do your will even when, and especially when, I am not so inclined.
The will is an interesting idea. Are there layers of the will? Why do I do things I don't want to do? Or is it that I change my mind at the moment of decision? Or is there a deep intent and a superficial one? Who's at the wheel?
I'm thinking too much :)
4 comments:
No, you're not thinking too much.
You're right. It's ESPECIALLY when we are not inclined to do God's will, that we need the most help to do it--because it is at that time that Satan is working on us. He doesn't want us to do God's will.
How timely...I just got through with a mini-summary of the book of Daniel for ds's homeschool reading. The few of the megathemes: Go is in control and perserverance(HT to the Life Application Study NAB). If Daniel could survive the lions and a hostile culture, so can we!
Just visiting from the Catholic moms online. :)
What the commentors have to say here is so true. I think the problem is we often really don't know we are trying to hold onto the controls.
We are brought to be independent and not enough is said that that is all fine and good as long as we are DEPENDENT on God first and independent in the means of being responsible...that sort of thing...I just think it gets all mixed up and many of us do not really mean to take the reins of God completely away until we realize we just might have done so..sometimes even in the name of being "righteous." We have had so many problems at our church in recent times and it has been because some...thought that their so called "righteousnes" was a good thing...not...it was taken to the extreme...the controls were held on way too tight and sad to say, the last thing that was said was that our former retired pastor was not different than Imus! Can you believe that? Sorry, I got off on a tangent here.
Thank you for your thoughts. Interesting.
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