Choose to Follow God's Will

What amazes me most about Jesus going to the cross is that He chose to go. He knew what He was getting into. He knew that He would experience mental, physical, and even spiritual anguish in His journey to retrieve our redemption. Yet He still chose to follow God's will anyway.

As He prayed in the garden, I'm sure Jesus was aware that not everyone would appreciate His sacrifice. Through the years, He knew that His trip to the cross would be downgraded to 'just a story.' He might have even known that people who did acknowledge His sacrifice would take it for granted and abuse its benefits.

Yet, He still chose to give up His life for us.

As we go through life, we often are faced with hard choices. God may direct us to go down a path that we would rather not face. He may place someone in our life that we would rather not love. He may give us a task that we would rather pass along to someone else.

It is in those times that we should remember the example that Jesus left for us. When He was feeling the call of the Father that it was time to go to the cross, He prayed seeking God if there was any other way that He could go. He travailed in prayer verifying that it was truly God's will for Him to die.

And when Jesus knew that there was no other way, He acquiesced to the will of God. He went forward with God's plan and never looked back. And as a result of Him going through the anguish of the cross, Jesus was able to revel in the glory of the resurrection.

You may have moments where you spend time seeking God for any other way than the one before you. However, when you know within your heart what God is requiring from you, go forward and don't look back. Remember, there will be glory after the cross.

Verse of the Day: And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed, Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. Luke 22:41, 42