2 Right away a man with leprosy[a] came up and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”
3 Reaching out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying, “I am willing; be made clean.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. (Matthew 8:2-3 CSB)
Do you begin your prayers with, ”Lord, if you are willing”?
Probably few of us do. No, we typically begin by asking for our will, not God’s will. We are focused wholly upon what we want and less about what God’s will might be for our lives.
This is where people start asking about why a loving God would let bad things happen.
Sometimes bad things happen in God’s good will for our best outcome.
I know, that seems a hard line to take for a loving God. But could it be that we are continually focused upon our will and not God’s will and this has made us stubborn. In need of being broken.
We are too focused upon our our will, what we want, what is best in our minds. We cannot rationalize that what might be in our best interest might not be the most comfortable for us. We expect that God’s good will presupposes security, comfort and good things, not discomfort and difficulty.
Maybe we should focus less upon our comfort and more upon God’s will.
