NOT MY WILL

“I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge:

and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will,

but the will of the Father which hath sent me.”
John 5:30
King James Version

Jesus is our ultimate example of completely doing the will of His Father. He truly had singleness of eye. He knew his purpose was to die for the sins of the world and reconcile us back to God. While walking the earth, nothing or no one was able to deter him from the path of obedience to His father, not even his own mother! When Jesus was only twelve years of age, he stayed behind in the temple sitting with the doctors answering and asking questions. When she asked him why he would do such a thing, he responded, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I had to be here, dealing with the things of my Father” (Luke 2:49).
His will was is total submission to His Father. The will is “what one wishes or has determined shall be done; choice, inclination, pleasure or desire.” Jesus followed the directives of his father because he did not seek to please his own desires. He had no ulterior, or concealed, motives. He never went beyond what was revealed or avowed from his father. Jesus totally depended and trusted His father for every decision and action, even to the point of being obedient to death (Philippians 2:8). Jesus totally submitted his entire life to God’s will. Philippians 2:9 says, “For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name.” God always rewards obedience and submission to his will.
As believer’s, the sole purpose of our life is to glorify God. We glorify God by doing his will having no other agenda than to further his kingdom. Paul says in Romans 14:8, “If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or we die, we belong to the Lord.” Our lives do not belong to us to do as we please. We have been made free, not to do as we like, but to do what is right. He purchased our lives with his precious blood so we are no longer our own. Again, Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:15, “He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live to please themselves. Instead, they will live to please Christ, who died and was raised for them.”
Align your will to the will of the Father so that you can be pleasing to Him and glorify God in your body. Is reverent submission to God’s will the pattern of your life? Are you seeking your own choices, pleasures or desires? Whatever you do, do it for the glory and honor of God.