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THY WILL BE DONE
We pray earnestly for our wills to be aligned with God's will, but we never seriously expect it to happen. Secretly, we are afraid of losing our identity if we become too much like God. Most of us would like to share God's power and omniscience, but there are other attributes - the costly ones that Jesus demonstrated in his earthly life - which make us squirm. Who would we be without our pride, our vengefulness, our familiar defects of character?

Self-willed creatures that we are, we find it impossible to grasp that God has no investment in getting His own way for the sake of getting His own way. He directs the orbit of every electron of every atom of creation and has no need to prove anything. Our freedom is so important to Him that He allows us to choose our paths without trying to manipulate us. His instructions exist not to control us, but to serve us. He will even go so far as to grant requests that are not in our best interest so that we may learn by experience what we refuse to learn any other way.

It is not until we realize that we are completely free to choose that we can let go of our rebellion and see clearly what it is that we really want. At that moment of truth, we discover that God's will and ours is the same.

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