Was it a cry of resignation? Perhaps it was a cry of commitment. What is the difference? In one case it seems we have no choice, no power to change anything, we just surrender. Of course there are always choices.  Not necessarily to avoid a bad situation, but certainly choices about how to respond to it.

In the other case there may be the same set of choices, but we decide that we want to do what God wants. Doing God’s will is a choice. But what is his will? What does he really want?

Most of all he wants people to worship him. To treat him as God. To worship him by loving him. To respond to his love by loving and obeying him. By doing what he has left us in the world to do: being like our Father, messaging the world with the news of his Son, building up his body.

Who can do that? Only those who have been set free to serve by the Spirit. They are like angels, eager to do God’s will because they know it is the ants pants of living.

Dale