Mar.03.03: Light For The Day - "Aligned To God's Will" -- 1 John 2:17 (NKJV) "And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever." ----------------------- If we were asked to respond with yes or no to the question, all of us would say, "Yes, I want to know [God's] will." But doing God's will is another matter entirely, because almost without exception it requires Risk and Adjustment and CHANGE. We don't like that. Even using those words makes us squirm. Experiencing the reality of them is even worse. We love the familiar. We love the comfortable. We love something we can control -- something we can get our arms around. Yet the closer we walk with the Lord, the less control we have over our own lives, and the more we must abandon to Him. To give Him our wills and to align our wills to His will requires the abandonment of what we prefer, what we want or what we would choose. -- Charles Swindoll -------------------- -- Mark 3:35 (NIVUS) "Whoever does God‘s will is my brother and sister and mother." -- 1 Peter 3:17,18 (NIVUS) "17 It is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. 18 For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit." -- Hebrew 10:35-38 35 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. 36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised: "37 For in just a very little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay." 38 "But My righteous one will live by faith (Hab 2:4). And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him."