Your desires are the things you want. Your will is the action you will take to have what you want.
Your desires and your will. That is my message today.
If you want more blessings in your life, it is important to understand the relationship between your desires and your will. This is your talk and your walk. Our desires are simply the things we want for our lives. Our wills then are degree of commitment we have that will lead us to act out our desires.
We have many examples in the Word that can help us see how to deal with our wills. Perhaps the best example is found in Jesus when He taught the disciples how to pray in Matthew 6:10. In that prayer, Jesus tells us to say, “Your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.”
In this prayer Jesus is showing us that our desires should be that the will of God should be done everywhere on earth. That is what we should all want. Our wills then would take this desire a step further to make sure we do all that we can do to be a part of the will of God being fulfilled here on earth.
Jesus gets at our desires and our wills and our talk and our walk. Many of us have heard of or we may even say ourselves that God gives us free will. There is no scripture that I know of specifically that speaks to us having something called free will. I suppose what we mean is that we have the ability to choose to do what things we do, even those things we know that expressly come at us from the Lord.
We choose to say yes Lord, or we do not. We choose to submit, or we do not. Our desires may be there, but our wills may not carry us through. The Lord will not twist our arms and make us do anything. He will always wait patiently on us to choose to do what He asks. He will also wait for us to do the things we know He wants us to do because we know His nature.
The Lord wants us to know Him well enough so that we can know the desires He has for us. He wants us to match our own desires for ourselves with His desires for us. He wants our talk for us to match His talk of us.
Then He wants us to love Him enough so that we can discipline ourselves and our will to allow His will to rule in our lives. He wants us to choose to act in ways that allow His actions for our lives to take priority over the actions we would otherwise take for ourselves. He wants our walk for ourselves to be submissive to His walk for us.
In the book of Psalms, we have many examples where our desires are aligned with God’s desires for us. Psalm 139:24 says, “Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my anxieties. And see if there is any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.”
Search me and try me are statements of our desires and of our talk. We hope that our desires and our talk will match His desires and the talk He has for us. But desires and talk are not enough. We must be willing to walk. We must be willing to submit our wills to the actions and plans God wants to take.
Our wills are of no real eternal value to us unless we are willing to submit to the walk God will lay out for us. If in our desires God finds anything wicked or harmful to us lurking within us, we must be willing to free ourselves from ourselves so that we walk the path He will direct us to take.
God does in fact give us the freedom to choose to be free of the desires and wills we would have for ourselves and to accept the desires and will He has for us. If you want your talk and your walk to align with the talk and the walk He has planned for you, ask the Lord to help you free yourself from yourself.
Perhaps trading your will for His will for you is the best expression of your free will. Free will frees you from the bondage you are held to when you live by your will alone.
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