Your Will Be Done
As you can probably tell from reading these posts…I really like music. Songs have an uncanny ability to tell a story and to reach the heart of the listener. CityAlight is a fairly recent discovery for me, and I’m glad I have discovered them. They have put out some great music that is theologically rich as well as quite well done. This is a new song that has recently been released called “Your Will Be Done.”
I would encourage you to go through this whole song and follow the biblical references and let it refresh your heart. And I want to point something from the second stanza where it says: “How in the Garden he persisted I may never fully know. The fearful weight of true obedience it was held by him alone.” I have been reading a book called "Gentle and Lowly” by Dane Ortlund (I would highly recommend it so far) and he put me on to this quote by C.S. Lewis about Christ resisting temptation:
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find out the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down. A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness — they have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means — the only complete realist.”
The incredible weight that Jesus bore in the incarnation - he knew the power of sin. He never gave in. He always fully did the will of the Father. And he knows what temptation is like…better than you or I ever could. We have a phenomenal Savior who can sympathize with our weakness, and he can give help (see Hebrews 4:14-16). He helps those who are in union with him - that is those who by faith and repentance believe. What a tremendous grace and privilege! Praise God.
Your will be done, my God and Father
As in heaven, so on earth
My heart is drawn to self-exalting
Help me seek Your kingdom first
As Jesus walked, so I shall walk
Held by Your same unchanging love
Be still my soul, O lift your voice and pray:
‘Father, not my will but Yours be done.’
How in that Garden he persisted
I may never fully know
The fearful weight of true obedience
It was held by him alone
What wondrous faith, to bear that cross!
To bear my sin, what wondrous love!
My hope was sure, when there my Saviour prayed:
‘Father, not my will but Yours be done.’
When I am lost, when I am broken
In the night of fear and doubt
Still I will trust in my good Father
Yes, to one great King I bow!
As Jesus rose, so I shall rise
In ransomed glory at the throne
My heart restored
With all your saints I sing:
‘Father, not my will but Yours be done!’
As we go forth, our God and Father
Lead us daily in the fight
That all the world might see Your glory
And Your Name be lifted high
And in this Name we overcome
For You shall see us safely home
Now as your church, we lift our voice and pray:
‘Father, not my will but Yours be done!’