Why is it when we are called upon by God to do His will, we can find every excuse in the world why we don’t have time or the finances. But when the thing is pertaining to what we want, then all of a sudden funds and time have become available. I believe that we really don’t value Jesus’ word and take it to heart as we should, especially when we were baptized in His name and supposedly filled with the Holy Ghost, which is the the hope of glory as in the book of Colossians 1:27 says, “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
So if Christ is in you, the hope of Glory then who is speaking, you or the Christ in you? What Jesus Christ is only asking of you to do, is your reasonable service, as Romans 12:1 states. When you take upon yourself His death burial and His resurrection, then your life is His to do of His good pleasure.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. 14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings: 15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; 16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
Philippians 2:13-16
The reason why in a lot of cases we’re not doing Jesus’ will for our life is because we do not want to die to self, and yield to Jesus’ will and to His way, which is the truth and the life as stated in John 14:6. Jesus is calling for ordinary people, to do extraordinary things, for the Kingdom in these last days to further the Kingdom principles. He will use people like Moses who who freed the enslaved Hebrew people.
Exodus 3:9-12 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. 11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? 12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
Another ordinary person was David, who killed the giant named Goliath, David being just a Shepard Boy. No one would go out to fight Goliath but David did. We read about this account in 1 Samuel 17:41-46
41 And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him. 42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. 43 And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. 44 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. 45 Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. 46 This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
In my conclusion I’ll leave you with this: Jesus’ will is what our life down on Earth be for Him, if we want to die to self and yield to Jesus’ will and to His way. Then we really can’t call ourselves a real Christian, and if we persist in calling our self Christians, it would just in name only. So you need to get rid of the facade and stop the charade.
