“ For I have come down from heaven NOT TO DO MY WILL but to do the WILL OF HIM WHO SENT ME”
JN – 6: 38.
All of us have the experience of ‘being sent’ to the market by our mother to get something- it may be an ordinary thing like pepper, chilli, pencil or paper.When I come back after buying many things and not the one which my mother told me to buy, won’t she ask me ‘ what is the use of sending you to the market when you have not bought what I told you to buy – instead you have bought many things which I had not told you to buy?’
In the same way, Lord would get annoyed when we would have done many things ON OUR OWN “prophecy in His name, drive out demons and perform mighty miracles “ (Mt.7: 21-23), but not doing the “WILL OF GOD” for what we have been “ SENT “ to this world;
And He also says that only those who
“Do The Will Of God “
will enter into heaven.
His “ WILL” is different from person to person and we have to discern and do it with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus was God- sent, ( God, the Father) came down from heaven ‘to do HIS WILL on earth (Jn. 6: 38).Jesus was repeatedly saying it .In Jn 4:34 He says, ‘‘My food is to do the WILL OF HIM who sent me and finish His work ‘’ and He did accordingly. In the same way, all of us are “sent by God to do His WILL” on earth.
Paul says ‘He raised us ( when we were dead to sin) up and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus’. ( Eph. 2: 6)
and again Phil. 3:20 says ‘ our citizenship is in heaven’ . Jesus also says ‘ you are not of this world’ Jn 15:19.
Then why are we here?
TO DO THE WILL OF HIM WHO SENT US.
Jesus taught us to pray like this “ Let your WILL be done on earth as it is in heaven “. He did not teach us to pray for things like working, earning,buying property etc. because these things are done automatically but not HIS WILL.
Lord, we know ‘ you who began a good work in us will carry it onto completion until the day of Christ Jesus ( Phil.1:6 )’ . Help us to co -operate with you in doing “YOUR WILL” while we are here on earth .