Thy will be done
A quote from an old friend from Victoria concerning prayer:
"1. It is, first, doxology. We call God by name. To pray in an orthodox manner, God must be rightly named. He must first be called GOD, and not 'Santa'. God is free and holy and other than us. He is not bound by our expectations. He is, rather, true to His word.Interpretation, however, is a receiver-act. It is our act. God is not true to our interpretation, an act of our mind, but rather to His word, an act of His mind. Therefore, to say "Thy will be done" is to invoke a word we have not yet fully understood; it is to expect a world which we cannot ever fully, well, expect.To ask for God to move on our interpretation of His word is to ask Him to create the world we imagine. It is to ask Him to make His will OUR will, not the other way around. In other words, it is "My will be done.""
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