Sunday, March 20, 2022

His Father’s Will

“Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of Me,) to do Thy will, O God” (Hebrews 10:7).

The will of God His Father was paramount with the Lord Jesus. He said, “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work…For I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me” (John 4:34; 6:38).

Not only was the Father’s will His one great objective, but it was His joy. He could say, “I delight to do Thy will, O My God: yea, Thy law is within My heart” (Psalm 40:8).

In Gethsemane, when in an agony as He anticipated the cross, He said, “Father…not My will, but Thine, be done” (Luke 22:42).

Later on we read, “Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2).

That joy was the joy of returning to the Father and sitting down at His right hand, knowing that all had been done according to His will. He could say with confidence, “I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do” (John 17:4).