Generally, Christians use the expression “God’s will be done” in sad moments, when all human avenues of help seem blocked. When a person faces the inevitable shattering of plans, hopes, and desires, faith resurfaces, we accept with resignation what God has decreed. But this is not the only time when God’s will should be done. There is more to Christianity than only “Christian resignation.”
A Christian’s life is rooted in heaven as well as on earth. Through faith, Christians can be, and always ought to be, in touch with an Other who is familiar with their lives and destinies. This Other is not earthly. No, he belongs to another world. Neither is he a merciless judge nor an absolute sovereign who demands only to be served. He is a Father because of his relationship with us, who are his children adopted through his only-begotten Son, a Son who dwells with him from all eternity.
So we Christians are often blind and renounce our supernatural dignity. Yes, we repeat every day in the Our Father, “Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.” But we really don’t understand what we’re saying, nor behave in conformity with what we pray for.
God is totally aware of the road we should take at every step of our lives. For each of us he has fixed a celestial orbit for the star of our freedom. But we need to abandon ourselves to him, our creator. We have our own orbit, our own life, that does not conflict with the orbits plotted out for billions of others, offspring of the same Father as we are. Our orbit harmonizes with theirs in a firmament more splendid that that of the stars, because it is spiritual. God must manage our life and guide it into a divine adventure we cannot foresee, but where we offer the contribution of our free will from moment to moment, as both spectators and protagonists, in wonderful scenarios of love.
We can offer him our will, freely and lovingly. It’s not that we ought to offer it or what is worse, resign ourselves to offering it.
God is a Father, and therefore he is love. He is the creator, our redeemer, and our sanctifier. Who better than he knows what is good for us?
“Lord, let it be done. Yes. Let your divine will be done now and at all times. May it be done with me, with my children, with others, with their children too, and with all humanity.
“Be patient, Lord, and pardon us. We are blind. Pardon us for not understanding. We have shut our eyes and declared by the lives we lead that all is darkness and heaven does not exist. And thus we have forced heaven to remain closed. By our blindness, we have prevented heaven from bequeathing its gifts to earth.
“Draw us into the rays of your light, of our light. Draw us into the ray that your love determined when out of love you brought us into existence.
“Bring us every moment to our knees in adoration of your will: the only will that is good, delightful, holy, new, rich, fascinating, and fertile. Thus, when the hour of sorrow arrives, we may be capable of seeing your infinite love beyond the trial. Then we may be so filled with you that while still on earth, we can see with your eyes. We may observe from on high the divine tapestry you have woven for us and for our neighbour. In this God-woven fabric everything turns out to be a brilliant design of love. Spare us, at least a little, the sight of those knots which your loving-kindness, tempered with justice, has tied in the places where our blindness broke the thread of your will.
“May your will be done throughout the world, then a secure peace will descend on earth, for the angels told us so: ‘Peace on earth to those on whom his favour rests’ (Lk 2:14). And if you, Christ, have told us that only one is good, the Father, then in consequence only one will is good, your Father’s will.”
Chiara Lubich
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