Your Will Be Done

Why is it that we sometimes feel
What we prayed went unheard,
When scripture tells us, without doubt,
That God would hear each word?
 
I’m not a scholar or a saint,
But what I’ve come to find
Is that we read the bible in
A human frame of mind.
 
We hear “ask and you will receive”,
But miss the bigger goal.
He knows much more than we can know,
The picture, great and whole.
 
With that in mind, we need to pray,
“If this works with Your will…”
Then we must trust His greater plan
Is working for us still.
 
Even before He faced the cross
God’s only precious Son
Prayed to forgo brutal death, but
“Your will, not mine, be done.”  
 
You know God heard His Son’s prayer,
But for our redemption
He had to walk into that death.
Through God’s will, grace was won.
 
Sometimes the answer is just, “No”,
Sometimes it’s so much more.
Though He knows our heart’s strong desires,
There’s often more in store.
 
Therefore, seek His will when You ask,
Knowing that, come what may,
His plans are built upon His love,
And He hears when you pray.
 
Matthew 6:10
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
 
1 John 5:14-15
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.