{"id":393,"date":"2009-03-12T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T23:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/?p=393"},"modified":"2009-02-18T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T11:30:00","slug":"lent-devotions-thursday-12th-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/2009\/03\/12\/lent-devotions-thursday-12th-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent Devotions 2009: Thursday 12th March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cThy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven\u201d<\/em> Lord&#8217;s Prayer, Fourth Petition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was once pointed out to me that each of the petitions in the Lord\u2019s Prayer was actually lived out by Jesus. He called God \u201cAbba, Father\u201d. He hallowed God\u2019s name in everything He did. He personally ushered in God\u2019s kingdom and rule. He is our daily bread, the bread of life. He forgave us our sins. He said no to temptation and He ultimately delivered us from evil.<\/p>\n<p>And Jesus lived out this petition as well. He did God\u2019s will. The High Priestly prayer in John 17 demonstrates that Jesus knew He had done everything the Father had asked Him to do. He had accomplished God\u2019s will during His earthly ministry, and He was now going off to do God\u2019s will by giving His life as a ransom for ours.<\/p>\n<p>And that leads us to the Garden of Gethsemane where He prayed that heart-wrenching prayer that the cup would be taken away from Him. The cup was God\u2019s wrath over our sin, which Jesus was about to assume as His own. He did not want to suffer this separation from God, but He chose to do so because it was God\u2019s will. Gods\u2019 will was done, and Jesus was forsaken so that you and I never would be.<\/p>\n<p>Because Jesus willingly submitted to God\u2019s will to deliver us, we too can gladly now submit to God\u2019s will. And God\u2019s will is that we hallow His name and let His kingdom come among us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I love Your kingdom Lord,<br \/>\nThe place of Your abode,<br \/>\nThe Church our blest Redeemer saved<br \/>\nWith His own precious blood.<br \/>\nAmen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Timothy Dwight LSB 651 st. 1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven\u201d Lord&#8217;s Prayer, Fourth Petition It was once pointed out to me that each of the petitions in the Lord\u2019s Prayer was actually lived out by Jesus. He called God \u201cAbba, Father\u201d. He hallowed God\u2019s name in everything He did. He personally ushered in God\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent-devotions-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}