You Can't Set Your Goals Higher Than "God's Will For You"

Common Sense Commentary: Generally speaking, most men want to be rich, most rich men want to be rulers, most rulers want to be human gods and all human gods want to be the one true God. That was Lucifer's ambition and eternal downfall. Set your goals high, but within the context of God's will for your life .... not your own will.  Even Jesus said, "Not my will but thine, be done." Lk.22:42.  Jesus well knew that there is no higher goal, in anybodies life, than God's perfect, unique, and personal will for each one of us. His purpose for coming to the world was to die for us.

Someone might ask, "If Jesus was God in the flesh, why would He ask His heavenly Father, 'Let this cup pass from me', referring to his sacrificial death?" That question answers itself.  He was God in a human body of flesh. Mary did not give birth to God but the fleshly body He lived in, among us, and which was nailed to the cross, as God's sacrificial Lamb, to pay our sin's "death debt".  "The wages of sin is death." Rom.6:23. Jesus, of course, knew that was why He came to this world and spoke of it several times to His disciples.  Even knowing He was to be crucified when He next went up to Jerusalem, He didn't turn back, but went on to that prophesied destiny.  There, at Gethsemane, when He prayed,  "Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done", it was that fleshly human part of Jesus which was about to be beaten, spit upon, and nailed to a wooden cross, that prayed for relief.  But much worse than the zenith of physical and mental suffering He would endure, was something far far more difficult, and unimaginably contradictory to His sinless nature, antagonistic to all He represented and stood for in His holy soul and totally repugnant to God Himself.  All the depraved, vile, filthy, vulgar, obnoxious sins of all humanity were about to be put upon his holy form, and not only put upon Him but, He would become our sins that our sins might die with him in that awful agony.
2 Cor.5:21.  "For he (God) hath made him (Jesus) to be sin for us, him who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."   This is the  most contradictory thing imaginable in  the minds of men, angels or devils... but with God, it was the only way to redeem you and me ... to Himself take the "wages of sin" which we earned and deserve upon Himself.  For He had decreed that... "The wages of sin is death" and God's Word cannot be undone, unsaid, undecreed or revoked.  It had to be... and Jesus came here in that body of flesh to draw the wages of our evil work ....
"death" upon himself.   Jesus stepped up to the the pay window and drew the wages of your sins and mine into his hand and then paid our sin debt.  We cannot repay Him for what He did for us, but we can show our appreciation and love by accepting His free gift of forgiveness and eternal life ... all paid for and offered to us, without charge, in His outstretched hand ..."For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."  Rom.6:23. 

We all have one choice between two options ... Accept Him or Reject Him. The price  is paid, the choice is yours.  To neglect Him is to reject Him.

Pass it on. RB