{"id":915,"date":"2010-03-05T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/?p=915"},"modified":"2010-02-20T11:28:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T10:28:56","slug":"lenten-devotions-2010-friday-5-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/2010\/03\/05\/lenten-devotions-2010-friday-5-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenten Devotions 2010: Friday 5 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cThy will be done on earth as it is in heaven\u201d Lord&#8217;s Prayer, Third Petition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>When we pray that the Father&#8217;s will be done, we ultimately pray for the complete realization of <em>His<\/em> plan, for the gift of happiness, for the gift of gifts, for God Himself, Whom we can only possess in the measure that we surrender ourselves to His will. We do not pray in order to bend God&#8217;s will to ours, nor do we even merely wish for the strength to follow His commandments, act by act.\u00a0 No, we want to be conformed to His will, for we are concerned with the reign of God&#8217;s will &#8220;on earth as it is in heaven&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<em>&#8220;<\/em>I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is in the depths of my heart<em>&#8220;<\/em> (Ps 39:9).\u00a0 The Father&#8217;s will was Jesus&#8217; supreme happiness. Only something infinitely good could make us completely and totally happy.\u00a0 God, of course, is the infinite good and the only possible source of everlasting happiness.\u00a0 We should delight in doing <em>His<\/em> will, and if we are not sure at times what that will seems to be, ask Him in\u00a0 prayer, read the Bible and know, that whatever is happening, it is His will.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong>Heavenly and almighty Lord, we cannot understand everything that takes place around us on earth, but we know that it is Your will in Heaven that rules us, commands us and leads us.\u00a0 Let anything we do be pleasing to You.\u00a0 Let Thy will be done.\u00a0 Amen<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThy will be done on earth as it is in heaven\u201d Lord&#8217;s Prayer, Third Petition \u00a0When we pray that the Father&#8217;s will be done, we ultimately pray for the complete realization of His plan, for the gift of happiness, for the gift of gifts, for God Himself, Whom we can only possess in the measure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent-devotions-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christlutheranchurch.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}