THY WILL BE DONE

9-13-2025

Thy Will Be Done

As believers we pray for the will of God in our lives. We yearn to touch the world around us for the gospel of Jesus Christ. We sow seeds of faith in hopes that one day those seeds will produce believers from the vast fields of unbelief. We hope and pray that one day when we take our final breath we will be instantly translated into the presence of Almighty God. We want to go out “with our boots on” or as they may have said in the wild, wild west, “with guns ablazing” (or maybe that’s just Hollywood).

What we fail to understand is where the bible tells us to “Study to show ourselves approved” from 2 Timothy 2:25 (NIV), where it says: “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth”.

We then must pray asking God to give us HIS purpose for our life. We sing and we pray “have your own way Lord, have our own way”, yet we are often fearful of what that way actually is.

There are many examples in the old and new testaments where ordinary men and women are called by God to do extra-ordinary tasks. Once they have accepted the call from God, they have gone out to change the world in which they live.

In more modern times there have been those who have answered the call of God upon their lives resulting in they being totally and radically changed. (Like Saul on a mission to rid the earth of these blasphemers of God, before meeting Jesus and becoming Paul a radically committed follower of Christ).

One such American Christian was Jim Elliott, who felt called to witness to tribes of Central America only to be murdered, martyred for the gospel. His wife wrote a book, “In the Shadow of the Almighty”.

Another is singer, songwriter Keith Green who as a very young man traveled the coastline of California playing in barrooms and honkytonks before meeting Jesus who forever changed his life. Keith began writing, singing and playing songs as the voice of God to audiences. Radio stations and churches all refused to play his music. Keith and his wife Melody began ministering to druggies and potheads to the point they sold their modest home, purchased a ranch in Texas and moved their entire ministry. Keith was unabashedly and totally committed to God. His motto was “No Compromise”, as was the name of the book written by his wife after Keith, two of his children and several family members were killed in a small airplane crash shortly after taking off from their Texas ranch. Today many of his songs is played in churches around the world.

There are others, men and women who after becoming sold out and radically changed have brought God to a great many unsaved people across the globe. One such woman was my friend Paula Randall, a wife and mother who led worship and prayer services in Yokohama, Japan along with her husband Pastor Jim Randall, until she came down with and succumbed to Parkinson’s Disease.

The recent assassination of Charles Kirk a divot Christian, husband and father of 2 young children and the founder of Turning Point USA, a ministry to America’s youth has caused a great number of followers to question, “Why Charlie, God”? Why do bad things happened to good people? What we should be asking is “Why not Charlie”? Was his unexpected death not in God’s plan? Charlie was a Christian who moved with a purpose, God’s purpose. His debating skills were excellent, some might say it was the work of the Holy Spirit living inside of him that made it all happen.

Maybe it’s time for believers around the globe to be more like Charlie (WWCD), who strived to be more like Jesus (WWJD) to move, act and speak with a purpose that came from a loving creator God?

We know and believe that to be absent from the body is to be in the presence of God as said in 2 Corinthians 5:8, “We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord”.

What I can say is, what a way to go…….instantaneously and without prolonged suffering.

For the non-believer a heart attack can be painful; a stroke can leave one crippled for life; an automobile accident can be devastating and leave someone bedridden, alive only by machines, medication and constant personal care.

John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life”.

After that last breath, that last heartbeat, that last taste of life on this earth, there is no coming back from the hereafter, from the brink, no “do-over”.

God’s grace and His plan of Salvation is totally free, but will cost you everything. What will be your excuse? – RTM