Parenting 101 Part 6 - My Will Be Done - 8.24.25

Joshua Boyd

I’m going to open with a question today and ask a few more in the message:  in your house, does everything you say, go?  Does every command get obeyed?  Why or why not?  

I pray that this series has not only brought light on how to parent your children but also opened your eyes to how the Heavenly Father relates to us as His children.   God seeks those who obey Him.  He selected and blessed Abraham because Abraham believed God and obeyed Him and he trained up his children to do the same.  

Genesis 18:19

19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

In Abraham’s house, was his will being done 100% of the time?  Did Abraham follow God’s will 100% of the time?  

There doesn’t exist someone who has fully done the will of the Father, other than Jesus Christ.  The Scriptures repeat the line in Old and New Testament: “there is none that does good, no not one.”  Because of sin being present in our hearts at birth, people are not inherently good.  We inherently want to do our own thing.  We want my will to be done.  

To summarize the responsibility of the parent: to remove the child’s desire to do their own thing all the time.  It is the same thing that God is working in us to change.  It doesn’t stop.  

Let’s turn to Matthew 6. 

Matthew 6:9-13

9 Our Father in heaven,

Hallowed be Your name.

10 Your kingdom come.

Your will be done

On earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts,

As we forgive our debtors.

13 And do not lead us into temptation,

But deliver us from the evil one.

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

CEV - Come and set up your kingdom, so that everyone on earth will obey you, as you are obeyed in heaven.

YLT - Thy reign come: Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on the earth.

When God gives the command, love your neighbor as you love yourself, His expectation is that it begins to be done, it comes to pass in us.  That is His will.  When He tells us that He hates pride, hates lying, His expectation is that we begin to not lie, not have pride.  That is His will.  Is that being done 100% in every Christian?  Paul had to tell the Ephesian church to put away lying.  Christians were lying, regularly. 

When the Holy Spirit prompts you to take a different route to work today, He expects us to finish that way.  That is His will.  When we start reasoning, “I always go this other way, it is shorter, faster, more convenient.”  If we don’t listen to His voice and go our own way, we can’t excuse ourselves or more importantly, we cannot blame God for anything that might happen by going our own way.  His will was known but not followed.