If you grew up Christian as I did, you grew up learning the Lord's Prayer. You prayed it at home, at church, etc. I think about "Thy kingdom come,Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven." But, how many times do we practice wanting to do His will?
Many times, I find that we try to bend His Will to fit our purposes, well-intended or not. At some point in the US, people used God and Christianity as a means to promote slavery or anti-slavery, Jim Crow and a ban on interracial marriage. Today, people still argue that their views about what God would want is right. Who am I to argue with then on if they're right, or their sincere belief that they think so? People tend to get so caught up in their religious and political factions. "You're wrong because you believe this way." "We're losing our country to xyz side." "Our founders never intended this."
All the while, I hear Jesus asking Peter, "Do you love me?" Peter responds yes. Jesus replies, "Feed my sheep." Are the sheep being fed? Do we really heed His voice? Are we tending to the sick, the hungry, the poor, as God would see fit?
Are we living testament and testimony of the God we preach, or are we no better than the Pharisees and Saducees Jesus preached against?
Sometimes I sit and look back at people and wonder, are they more caught up in God's Will, or are they caught up in their political affiliation and/or religion's doctrine/will?
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