Our Father #6: Your will be done....

A "lectio divina" of "your will be done on earth as in heaven"
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Jesus takes up the prophecy of Isaiah and 55:10-11: “‘My purpose shall stand, and I will fulfil my intention’,I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I have planned, and I will do it.( 46:10-11) “my word that goes out from my mouth… shall accomplish that which I purpose,and succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” (Gerhard Lohfink, “The Our Father” 70). God’s will is God’s purpose or plan.
We are saying: “Bring your plan to completion, the plan for the world you have conceived from all eternity. Let it come from heaven to earth, from your heart to ours. Give us the strength, together with our communities, to be your aid, your sacrament for the world. Your will be done.” (Lohfink, 110)
These first three petitions are dangerous. “[they beg] that “God’s will intervene now, that God will be master, and we will let God be God, that God will remember the people of God and make them holy so that salvation may come to earth though this people. That is God’s plan, God’s will, and the one who prays the Our Father enters that will, that sort of thing changes one’s life.” (Lohfink 73)
“If we pray in the Our Father for the coming of the reign of God, we are praying for the end of the world-that is the end of our old world, with all the powers we have thus far served, and the beginning of the new world that God is offering us already today-[this]…implies a radical change of rulers. In that way also, the Our Father is a dangerous prayer.” (Lohfink 57)
“God has a will with and for us and it must become the measure of our willing and being; and the essence of heaven is there where God’s will is unswervingly done…where God’s will is done is heaven. The essence of heaven is union with God’s will, the oness of will and truth.” (Benedict XVI “Jesus of Nazareth I”, 147-8)
“…man has a knowledge of God’s will in his inmost heart… anchored deeply within us there is a participation in God’s knowing that we call conscience (Romans 2:15)…” though it has been much covered over…that is why God has spoken anew. The [ten commandments are] a revelation of the essence of God himself…and “an exegesis of the truth of our being.”...”liberating us from self-destruction through falsehood.” (Benedict 148-9)
With Jesus we can say, “‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.” (John 4:34). (Benedict 149)
“…we pray that we come closer and closer to [Jesus] so that God’s will can conquer the downward pull of selfishness and make us capable of the lofty height to which we are called.” (Benedict 150)
Music by Kevin MacLeod, "Meditation Impromptu 1, Light Awash, Bathed in Light"