The Will Of The Father

"This is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day." (1)

It is the will of the Father that everyone who puts their faith and trust in Jesus and believes in Him will be saved. (2) The Father sent Jesus to earth to show us the way. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (3) Jesus and the Father are One. "I am in the Father and the Father in Me" (4) and "I and My Father are one." (5)

The Father and Jesus are united in their purpose to save the human race and to reunite us into the family of God. "He (God) has made known to us His hidden purpose - such was His will and pleasure determined beforehand in Christ - to be put into effect when the time was ripe: namely, that the universe, all in heaven and on earth, might be brought into unity in Christ." (6) What a blessing that the Father and Jesus are united to save you and me and to provide for us a future that is united with their future.

It is our choice whether or not we accept the provision that God has made. God's character of love will force no man, woman or child to accept Him, however, it is also His pure love and creative power that attracts us to Him. "I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you" (7) and "When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?" (8) Jesus never turned anyone away and He always treated people with respect, love and kindness.

Are we willing and ready to accept God's will for our lives, namely "that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life"? (1) Jesus said, "Whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother." (9) In Jesus, we are family, not "born... of the will of man, but of God." (10)

1. John 6:40.
2. John 3:15-17.
3. John 14:6.
4. John 14:11.
5. John 10:30.
6. Ephesians 1:9, 10, NEB.
7. Jeremiah 31:3.
8. Psalm 8:3, 4.
9. Matthew 12:50.
10. John 1:13.