Not My Will but Thine

Mark 14:27-42 “Not my will, but thine.” Five simple words so easily spoken, but so challenging to live. Have those words ever crossed your mind, your lips? If so, how have they affected your choices? Were they uttered in response to a specific decision you faced, or were you, as it were, writing a blank check to God, giving Him freedom to bring all of life under His authority? Most Christ-followers are aware that Jesus spoke these words during His prayer in Gethsemane, before His arrest, trial, and crucifixion. But wasn’t Jesus always surrendered to the will of His Father? […]