Lord's Prayer: Thy Will Be Doneنموونە

What does God want? This isn’t as mysterious as it seems.

God wants all people to be saved.
God wants people to call on his name.
God wants people to listen to him and do what he says.
God wants people to love him.
God wants people to turn to him.
God wants people to trust him.
God wants a relationship with people, people who delight in him as he delights in them.

There’s more. You see what God wants back in the beginning in the Garden of Eden, and again when Eden’s restored when Christ comes again.

God wants humanity to reflect his image.
God wants humanity to govern in his stead.
God wants humanity to care for his creation and continue the creative work he’s done.
God wants abundance and prosperity. What the Bible calls shalom.
God wants life.
God wants health.
God wants goodness.

We can go on. We see what God wants as he brings about his kingdom in Jesus’s ministry. Ask yourself:

Does God want the blind to see?
Does God want the crippled to walk?
Does God want the deaf to hear?
Does God want the unclean made clean?
Does God want the hungry to eat?
Does God want the poor to become able?
Does God want those who are oppressed to be set free?

Of course he does. That’s why Jesus does it! Add to that modern expressions like cancer healed, MS cured, malaria eradicated, the mentally afflicted brought soundness of mine, and addicts set free, and you start to get a sense of what God’s kingdom and God’s will look like.

So pray for that. Jesus tells you to. “Thy will be done! On earth as it is in heaven!” It’s all an extension of God’s kingdom.

Consider this today…

What wrongs in this world do you wish God would make right? What suffering do you wish he would heal? What hardness of heart do you wish he would soften? Into what confusions do you wish he would bring grace and truth? Pray for that today under the banner of “Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”