Jan 9, 2017
A daily devotional through the recorded words Jesus spoke while He walked alongside us. Our website http://alittlewalkwithgod.com.
Thanks for joining me today for "A Little Walk with God." I'm your host Richard Agee.
What is the one thing you hate doing most of all? So why do you do it? Out of a sense of duty, fear, responsibility, love, all of those? We all face those tasks at some point, Jesus taught us how.
Scripture
Luke 22:40-42
Jesus: Pray for yourselves, that you will not sink into temptation.
He distanced Himself from them about a stone’s throw and knelt there, praying.
Jesus: Father, if You are willing, take this cup away from Me. Yet not My will, but Your will, be done.
Devotional
Jobs you just don’t want to do.
Dusting
Dishes
Yardword
Painting
We do them most of the time without too much complaint even when we don’t want to
Sometimes talk others into doing them
Sometimes swap with others
Sometimes hire out the work
Every once in awhile get tasks that no one can do but us
Our responsibility
Can’t shirk or put it off
Must be done
But nothing like what Jesus faced
He wanted out of His task
About to bear the weight of the world’s sins on His shoulders
Pay the penalty required for each of our sins
Guiltless but paying anyway
Asked if there was any other way to let Him take that alternate way
Resolved to do what the Father wanted rather than what He wanted
May ask us to do some things we don’t want to do
May be unpleasant or difficult
Can be sure they will never be as difficult as what Jesus did for us
He will help us accomplish whatever He tells us to do
He understands our reluctance to do difficult things because He’s been there
He also knows the importance of doing what the Father asks, because He’s been there
Not my will but Your will, can you say that from your heart
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