Job does not see his loss as a net positive because he ended up with more than at the beginning. This man after the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit’s own heart is just as content at the end as at the start. The reason for this is not rocket science. It is because his highest good was not himself, or anything around him. His chief end was the glory of God and then to enjoy Him forever and no earthly thing could change that about Job, for his faith was Heaven sent. 

As we move into the next part of the Lord’s Prayer we are witnessing the call of Christ to be in keen remembrance of the relationship between God and man. It is wrong to ever think that the one who made the Heavens and the Earth is working together with us to accomplish what is on our heart. Those who believe in Jesus have come to understand that they are the workers given the responsibility to be about their Father’s business, not the Father about theirs. We must be at rest in our position as the servant, not the master, and as the Apostle Paul notes the servant should serve in such a way that his master has no reason to chastise him. It is a sweet compliance when what is on our heart coincides with what is on God’s heart. That should be the goal and orientation of every person who loves the Lord. To say, as we will discuss more in a second, His Will Be Done, is a testimony born out of a servant’s heart where our interest seeks only in one thing, and that is what God has revealed in His word. This is our ultimate love each and every day that we breathe oxygen on this planet. Our goal is to return thanks for all that He has done for us. As one of our favorite Bible songs notes, O Lord the high and holy One, I am a servant unto thee, thy servant and thy handmaid’s son; thou hast from bonds delivered me.

Let’s look at the Q/A for today:

Q. 192. What do we pray for in the third petition?

A. In the third petition, (which is, thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven,) acknowledging, that by nature we and all men are not only utterly unable and unwilling to know and do the will of God, but prone to rebel against his word, to repine and murmur against his providence, and wholly inclined to do the will of the flesh, and of the devil; we pray, that God would be his Spirit take away from ourselves and others all blindness, weakness, indisposedness, and perverseness of heart; and by his grace make us able and willing to know, do, and submit to his will in all things, with the like humility, cheerfulness, faithfulness, diligence, zeal, sincerity, and constancy, as the angels do in heaven.

We are to have a singular mindset born out of first looking towards the author of truth and blessing, and second, remembering that this understanding is solely ours by grace alone.

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