What does the third petition mean?
Text: CRC/RCA 2011 · Read it at the source
“Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” means: Help us and all people to reject our own wills and to obey your will without any back talk. Your will alone is good. Help us one and all to carry out the work we are called to, as willingly and faithfully as the angels in heaven.
Scripture proofs
- 1
- Matt. 7:21; 16:24-26; Luke 22:42; Rom. 12:1-2; Tit. 2:11-12
- 2
- 1 Cor. 7:17-24; Eph. 6:5-9
- 3
- Ps. 103:20-21