Holy Spirit of God, teach me the path of your will and help me walk in it…

 
Matthew 19:13-15 & Matthew 22: 34-40
Doing the will of God is always in-formed by choice.  When parents of Judea brought their children to Jesus “in order that he might lay his hands on them and pray”, they had freely made a choice to have their children receive the blessing of the Holy Spirit from Jesus.  Perhaps their children had had something to do with this – ‘Mom, Dad, when can we go to see Jesus?’ or some such badgering. For whatever reason, these parents did the will of God by bringing their children for prayer to the Lord.  Jesus’ disciples, on the other hand, the adults who had been journeying the countryside with him for several seasons, spoke sharply to the children and their parents and tried to tell them to ‘get lost’. Perhaps they knew how tired the Master was. Perhaps they had been pushed aside themselves as children and thought that impatience had it place with young families. Perhaps they thought there were more important things on the agenda for Jesus to do, For whatever reason, the disciples did not do the will of God, and freely chose to try to prevent the young families from seeing Jesus. Jesus sums up the will of God for each one of us by saying, “Let the little children (or the big adults) come to me, and do not stop them.. “ Why? …”for it is to such as these (those who humbly and honestly approach God and open themselves to his mercy) that the kingdom of heaven belongs.”  Am I like the disciples or the parents and their children when I am ‘doing the will of God’? Will I quietly seek the will of God and choose to do it, or am I like the disciples imposing my own will on life circumstances and ultimately preventing others from coming to Jesus for his healing Mercy?  Holy Spirit of God, teach me the path of your will, and help me to do it. 
 
The Lord loves the righteous [those who are rightly related to him and to others] but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.  (Psalm 145:6 )
 
Christian perfection consists in the union of our will with the will of God.
St. Maximillian Kobe
 
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