It’s a prayer that we have a really hard time meaning. We use the words as a great platitude but actually wanting to apply them is a whole other story! We think we’ve got life pretty well under control even when we admit things are spiraling into a chaotic mess. In the Lord’s Prayer, probably one of the most popular prayers of all time, we say the words Thy Will Be Done. 

If you’re anything like me you really don’t want that. And if you think you do, you likely have little idea what that means. We pray Thy will be done…as long as it doesn’t ruin my plans. Or thy will be done…as long as it’s exactly what I want done. But rarely to we really mean THY will be done.

I remember being at a conference for pastors who start new churches. We took time to look at a chorus of a song – Spirit of the Living God fall afresh on me. Melt me, mold me, fill me, use me. These words spoke of asking God to have his will with us no matter how bad it would hurt. You can exchange the word break for melt and get another image as well. The idea is the same – we want God to have his own way in our lives.

This morning we look at a song about being a work in progress. The concept is very similar to asking God to have his own way. The song is a prayer that we wouldn’t get to filled with ourselves that we see no need for Christ. It’s about being broken so we can experience the healing of Jesus.

Our challenge this week is to ask God to break us. We pray that God would let us be broken by the world and our own sin that we might know of his love and healing. Thy will be done O Lord. It’s not an easy prayer but it’s the only prayer that truly prepares us for all that God has in store for us.