Yet...
"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”
Luke 22:42
Do you ever have moments in your life when you become so overwhelmed that all you want to do is fall to your knees and beg for God to take the cup that He has placed in your life from you?
The verse above has so much in it, but I want to look at the word "yet". Jesus is praying on the Mount of Olives the night before His crucifixion. He asks God to take the pain He is about to endure away from Him, but then He says, "YET not my will, but your be done." He knows and understands that God's will is higher than His and knows that if this must take place then He will endure what He needs to endure.
This verse stirs something and begs the question, what are we asking the Lord to take from us? It is an illness, pain, sorrow, being childless, suffering, a bad marriage, a terrible job... it could be whatever is weighing you down and bringing anxiety to you life. What makes living out Philippians 4:6-7 more difficult.
For me, it is being childless. I pray daily that the Lord will eventually take that from me and bless my husband and I with the miracle and gift of a healthy baby girl or boy. I have yearned to be a mother to my own children. I am a teacher so I technically have many children and many do call me "mommy", but that is not the same. I beg and plead for the gift to carry my own flesh and blood. To raise the child to love the Lord with all that they have in them. YET. Yet His will be done and not my own. Yet in His timing and not my own. Yet in His ways and not my ways. Yet in His plan and not mine. As a human, I am impatient and that might be an understatement. I am very very impatient. Once I want something it is very hard to take my mind from it and give it to God. I tend to go overboard is the waiting. I plan, I make lists, I buy things that I have no use for in the waiting. I feel like it is me telling and showing God that I am ready for His blessing. I feel like I am preparing for the Promise He has given me. With all that said, I am fallen and I am human, but I am so glad I have a Heavenly Father that knows this and loves me despite all my sinful and humanly faults. That loves me despite the silly things I do in the waiting. He knows my desires. It says in Psalm 37:4, "Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart." To be able to give you those desires He has to know them. The Lord knows each desire you have, spoken and unspoken. He knows what is in your heart and what cup you wish would pass. The Lord has His own timing and that timing is perfect. We cannot see the bigger picture, but He has already drawn it out on the beautiful canvas that is the life He created just for us.
Now, does knowing all of this make the waiting any easier? No. We are still in a period of waiting, praying, and hoping through our desires. This is when we have the option to grow our desires, to change them, to desiring the one thing/person we should be desiring most of all... God and a deeper relationship with Him. Does this mean we should give up all of our desires that we have for our time on this earth? No, but that does meant hat we seek Him and desire for our desires to align with His. We should always want His will for our lives no matter how long we must wait for His timing and plan to fall perfectly together. We rest in the fact that we serve a God that loves us and cares for us deeply.
My challenge today friends, what is the cup you wish the Lord would take from you? What is your YET? I urge you to write your YET down and pray daily that the Lord will speak soft words to you in the waiting and for His will, not your will to be done. Praying for you sweet friends.
In Him and For His Glory,
Cassie
Do you ever have moments in your life when you become so overwhelmed that all you want to do is fall to your knees and beg for God to take the cup that He has placed in your life from you?
The verse above has so much in it, but I want to look at the word "yet". Jesus is praying on the Mount of Olives the night before His crucifixion. He asks God to take the pain He is about to endure away from Him, but then He says, "YET not my will, but your be done." He knows and understands that God's will is higher than His and knows that if this must take place then He will endure what He needs to endure.
This verse stirs something and begs the question, what are we asking the Lord to take from us? It is an illness, pain, sorrow, being childless, suffering, a bad marriage, a terrible job... it could be whatever is weighing you down and bringing anxiety to you life. What makes living out Philippians 4:6-7 more difficult.
For me, it is being childless. I pray daily that the Lord will eventually take that from me and bless my husband and I with the miracle and gift of a healthy baby girl or boy. I have yearned to be a mother to my own children. I am a teacher so I technically have many children and many do call me "mommy", but that is not the same. I beg and plead for the gift to carry my own flesh and blood. To raise the child to love the Lord with all that they have in them. YET. Yet His will be done and not my own. Yet in His timing and not my own. Yet in His ways and not my ways. Yet in His plan and not mine. As a human, I am impatient and that might be an understatement. I am very very impatient. Once I want something it is very hard to take my mind from it and give it to God. I tend to go overboard is the waiting. I plan, I make lists, I buy things that I have no use for in the waiting. I feel like it is me telling and showing God that I am ready for His blessing. I feel like I am preparing for the Promise He has given me. With all that said, I am fallen and I am human, but I am so glad I have a Heavenly Father that knows this and loves me despite all my sinful and humanly faults. That loves me despite the silly things I do in the waiting. He knows my desires. It says in Psalm 37:4, "Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart." To be able to give you those desires He has to know them. The Lord knows each desire you have, spoken and unspoken. He knows what is in your heart and what cup you wish would pass. The Lord has His own timing and that timing is perfect. We cannot see the bigger picture, but He has already drawn it out on the beautiful canvas that is the life He created just for us.
Now, does knowing all of this make the waiting any easier? No. We are still in a period of waiting, praying, and hoping through our desires. This is when we have the option to grow our desires, to change them, to desiring the one thing/person we should be desiring most of all... God and a deeper relationship with Him. Does this mean we should give up all of our desires that we have for our time on this earth? No, but that does meant hat we seek Him and desire for our desires to align with His. We should always want His will for our lives no matter how long we must wait for His timing and plan to fall perfectly together. We rest in the fact that we serve a God that loves us and cares for us deeply.
My challenge today friends, what is the cup you wish the Lord would take from you? What is your YET? I urge you to write your YET down and pray daily that the Lord will speak soft words to you in the waiting and for His will, not your will to be done. Praying for you sweet friends.
In Him and For His Glory,
Cassie
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