Heart to Heart: Meeting With God in the Lord's Prayer | Chapter Excerpts
from "Thy Will Be Done"
I have a destiny (so do you), and I'm living it out every day. Every day, every moment, every interaction, every circumstance, is another step down a path. I will someday reach the end, and the end is that I will be like Christ. Mark you, I will not become Christ. I'm not looking for a nirvana-like experience that will merge me with the Universe. I won't wake up and discover that I've always existed or that I speak Hebrew or that I've grown a beard. I will still be me, but I will be a new me; I will be like Christ;
I will be a child of God in every sense of the word. I'll be perfect like Christ—my inside and my outside will match up. I will have joy like Christ, I will love like Christ. I will delight fully in God, my All in All. I will have become a true human being with no more temptation to be a human doing. Everything I do will flow naturally from who I am, and everything I am will flow naturally from who God is. I can't really express the incredible freedom contained in this; really, I can't even look it in the face yet. But I'll get there. It's my destiny.
It's so important for us to know this. We should remind ourselves of it every day. Knowing where we're finally headed won't necessarily tell us what to do tomorrow. You can know the will of God—to make you like Christ—and still feel like you haven't "found" it because you don't know where you're going to work or who you're going to marry or what you're going to eat for lunch tomorrow. I understand the feeling, but it's important to remember our finish line, if only because we tend to live what we believe. If we believe we're just running around in circles and we haven't entered God's will for our lives yet, we'll live like it. On the other hand, if we believe that everything that comes into our lives is sent by God for the master purpose of making us like Jesus, we'll live as though it's true. And the marvelous thing is, it is true—and the truth will set us free.
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