I believe it was C. S. Lewis who said that either we will say to God, “Thy will be done” or God will say to us, “Thy will be done”. His point was that God leaves the choice to us; we can submit to God’s will and enjoy an eternity in heaven, or God will allow us to follow our own will which will result in us being eternally lost. It is our choice. It is true that God does not desire that anyone be lost, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). But God made us with free will, we can make our own choices even when those choices are bad. “And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” (Joshua 24:15). Some people like to blame someone or something else whenever they do something wrong. They refuse to take responsibility. If nothing else, they blame Satan, “The devil made me do it”. Other people or circumstances or even Satan may be partly to blame but they will never completely remove our responsibility or override our free will. James 4:7 reads, “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” The real problem is that there are some things that we know are sinful that we just do not wish to give up. We make all kinds of excuses for continuing to do what we know is wrong; from passing the blame, to convincing ourselves that it isn’t really that bad, or telling ourselves that we will give it up later. We will use any excuse that helps us feel better and lets us continue on the way we are. Jesus said in Matthew 6:24, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” We need to make a choice. We need to stop lying to ourselves, and instead, look at ourselves honestly. As Peter said in 1 Peter 5:6, “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time”. We have a choice to make, either we say to God, “Your will be done” or He will sadly say to us, “Your will be done”. Which will it be?