Who's Will? GOD'S WILL BE DONE!

 

I WILL

 

Men and women love to speak of God in generic terms and broad statements. They do this that they might have the acceptance of all and offend none. Yet, what men fear to say about God, He is not afraid to say about Himself. He does not hesitate to take the credit or the blame as some would think it, He worketh “all things after the counsel of His own will.” He declares Himself to be the God Who “doeth according to His will in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth and one can stay His hand or say unto Him, what doest Thou?” This being the case, the first thing that we are confronted with if He is ever our Savior it is His right as God to do what He will with His own creatures, especially us!

The tree in the midst of the garden represented God’s right to be God and govern His creatures as He would. Adam rebelled against this but not successfully. He rebelled at great cost to himself and his race. To defy the Almighty is death. This is the eternal cost of sin against God. “In the day that ye eat thereof, ye shall surely die.” The very thing we deny God is the very thing that is our only hope as sinners! Since there is nothing in us or that can be done by us to warrant God’s helping and saving us, our only hope is that He might exercise His sovereign right as God uninfluenced and have mercy on us.

What sweet words these are: “I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and will have mercy upon whom I will have mercy.” Rather than continue our defiance and try to do the impossible in saving ourselves, the thing we must do is bow before our sovereign King and seek mercy from Him like the leprous man: “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.”  He could not heal himself from the leprous disease nor we from the leprosy of sin. When the leprous man bowed to Christ as Lord and sovereign, he found Him a Sovereign willing to heal and cleanse. Christ said, “I will, be thou clean.” His will to save us is our salvation both in the exercise of it and the accomplishment of it. “This is the will of Him that sent me that all which He has given me I should lose nothing but raise them up at the last day.”

Let us as sinners bow to Him who does all His will and plead for mercy. Our natural wills only display defiance.  His will may display grace to us. “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” May He enable us to believe the good news of His gospel which says  to all who look by faith to Christ, “I WILL, be thou clean!”


-preacher Gary Shepard

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