Would you like to know how to have peace and contentment immediately?

Say and mean, “Not my will, but yours be done.”

Don’t all our discontentment and anxiety come from wanting our will? We know what we want and we have to have it in order to be happy. But when circumstances don’t conform to our will, we get discontented and lose our peace. What if we gave up our will and gave it to the Lord?

On the night Jesus was to be captured, He desired to be spared from the cross. Can you blame Him? He will experience separation from His Father and all of our past, present, and future sins will be put on Him. He will experience the full extent of hell. He WANTED to be spared from that experience, however, His desire to obey God superseded HIs desire to obey His own humanity’s cravings. So He says to His Father, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” Luke 22:42

Have you given up your will to God? Have you said and meant, “Not my will, but yours be done,” regarding that which you are anxious about? Do you trust God to give you something better than what you could muster up for yourself?

Trust Him. And keeping trusting Him until you treasure Him above all else.