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IIf it be your will
That I speak no more
And my voice be still
As it was before

I will speak no more
I shall abide until
I am spoken for
If it be your will

If it be your will
That a voice be true
From this broken hill
I will sing to you

From this broken hill
All your praises they shall ring
If it be your will
To let me sing

From this broken hill
All your praises they shall ring
If it be your will
To let me sing

If it be your will
If there is a choice
Let the rivers fill
Let the hills rejoice

Let your mercy spill
On all these burning hearts in hell
If it be your will
To make us well

And to draw us near
And bind us tight
All your children here
In their rags of light

In our rags of light
All dressed to kill
And end this night
If it be your will
If it be your will” (Leonard Cohen).

Lord, thy will be done.

That’s a dangerous prayer to offer up to God because He just might take you up on it. It’s not something that you pray half-heartedly unless you’re prepared for the consequences.

As the old quote says, when you pray Thy will be done, it’s saying that quite possibly your will be undone. It means that any plans or dreams or goals that you have that run contrary to the will of God must die. You must lay them at the foot of the cross and walk away from them forever.

But the good news is that God’s will is good. In fact, it’s the best. If you saw all that God saw and knew all that God knew, then you would always want what He wants and will what He wills. But from a finite and broken perspective, you see in part what God sees in whole.

So when Jesus taught His disciples to pray, He taught them to pray to the Father in heaven, “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

It’s not about getting God to endorse your will, but getting to the point where God’s will becomes your will in every aspect of your life. Even if it means laying down your life, as Jesus did in the hours before Calvary, “Not my will, but Yours.”

So, Lord, let your will be done, even if my will is undone. Amen.