Molding Our Will to God's Will

Orig: 09/14/07

"The people complained against God ...."' Numbers 21:5

In the exchange between the people and Moses that dry, dusty day, I don't think it was the food and water that created all the havoc with the snakes. I believe that it was the power of their wills and the direction they were pointed that made all the difference. If our wills are pointed toward the self, then something as small as a drink of water can perpetrate a big argument. There are a hunded reasons to demand the water now. If our wills are pointed toward God, in a relationship of responsibility toward truth and goodness, we discover freedom and are given glory even in the devastating horror of public humiliation and complete failure. The Gospel makes clear that our wills are always in relation to Another's: for God loved, God sent. May we recognize as we grow older that it is this letting go of how we need to have things done that opens the way to discover what Jesus came to show us: that the utter glory of the human creature is obedience.

Fri Sept 14 ----Living Faith Devotions


Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

... taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death ...

... for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God ..

Philippians 2 3-14