God’s Will Be Done

In the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples to pray, he had us acknowledge that “God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” It was not stated, “in heaven as it is on earth,” as if we govern God, the angelic hosts, and the unseen powers and principalities that reside there.

While many blame God for the continuation of hardship, loss and terrible calamities; affecting men, women and children, this was the price of Adam’s transgression and our continued rebellion. I weep for those lost, but not in the sense of their manner of death for we all shall die, but to die without Christ?  I take little comfort in a personal salvation when I know our redemption was meant also to be a ‘shared’ salvation as the body of Christ. Of course, I know too that Jesus said, “There are many called, but few are chosen;” thus, not all are saved. Our salvation too is a matter of God’s will and election, in accordance with the counsel of his own will as he predestined and foreknew his elect before the foundation of the earth was laid.

I will not apologize for God on this matter of election. There are those non-believers who will seize upon my statement, shrug, scoff and walk away saying, ‘Well, I guess I’m not one of the lucky ones!’ On the other hand, there are believers who will not share the Gospel because they figure that God knows who he has chosen, and if it is his will, he will make it happen. Oh, how foolish are we! Do you not know, Oh Christian (if you are), that you are the temple of God? Why do you think the Holy Spirit was committed to us? To live in us? We were meant to be his instruments, empowered by him and as ambassadors of Christ, preaching the Gospel to all, although few are chosen! While evangelism is not the only reason that Christ sent to us His Comforter, unfortunately what we believe doctrinally is often to accommodate our personal unbelief, cowardice, shame, or any number of unconfessed sins that we meet with daily and sours the well of living water that should flow from us.

As for those who have a difficult time understanding the words ‘predestination’ and ‘foreknowledge’ in the same context, it is not difficult if you believe in a God who is said to see the end from the beginning. It is a most Holy Confluence, even as exists with the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.