Discovering God's Will
Your Will Be Done On Earth Like It Is Done In Heaven : Jesus Complicating Discovering God's Will Sometimes, when I think about the will of God, I feel a bit perplexed by how complicated people make determining how to know God's will. I think one reason people do so is because they confuse a particular context of a well known passage of scripture. Many consider Jesus, in the Garden of Gethsemane, where he sweated blood, and where He prayed, "Not my will, but your will be done," as as an automatic belief that your, or my will, will consistently be diametrically opposed to what God wants? This is simply NOT true. In the context of Gethsemane, Jesus absolutely knew what the Father wanted, and He knew what it would take to carry out that will. He would have to go through a LOT of pain, and then He would die. His body rebelled against what He already knew to be the will of God. So, He said, "Not my will, but your will be done." This does not, the