“The most powerful weapon for silencing the mouth of the world is not brilliant theological apologetics, but the practice of a holy life that resembles Jesus Christ.” “Now it happened, as Jesus went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they were watching Him closely. And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy. And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, ‘Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?’ But they kept silent. And He took him and healed him, and let him go. Then He answered them, saying, ‘Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?’ And they could not answer Him regarding these things” (Luke 14:1–6). (1) As I meditated on today’s passage, Luke 14:1–6, the phrase that first caught my attention was: “they were watching Him clos...
‘My Lord, let Your will be done.’
The will of God was for the disobedient prophet
Jonah
to be thrown into the sea (Jonah 1:12).
God had already prepared a great fish for this
purpose (v. 17).
However, the pagan sailors, in their unbelief,
tried to save Jonah by rowing hard to bring the
ship back to land (v. 13).
As they did so, the sea, which had been growing
increasingly tempestuous (v. 11),
became even more violent, making it impossible
for the sailors
to turn the ship back to land (v. 13).
These sailors could not prevail against God.
Their desire to turn the ship to land,
in opposition to God's will to cast Jonah into
the sea, clashed.
Eventually, after acknowledging,
"The Lord, the God of heaven, who made the
sea and the dry land,
does not wish us to perish for his sake" (v.
14),
the sailors threw Jonah into the sea according
to God's will (vv. 14-15).
“My Jesus, as Thou wilt! All shall be well for me;
Each changing future scene I gladly trust with
Thee.
Straight to my home above I travel calmly on;
And sing, in life or death, My Lord, Thy will be
done. Amen.”
(Hymn “My Jesus, as Thou Wilt”, verse 3)
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