“Not My Will, But Yours Be Done” — The End of Two Wills
These words, spoken in the Garden of Gethsemane,
have echoed through time as the cry of surrender:
“Not my will, but Yours be done.” — Luke 22:42
But so often, this verse is misunderstood.
It is preached as if Jesus was in deep conflict with the Father,
as if the will of God was at odds with the will of Christ,
and Jesus had to reluctantly submit to some harsh divine plan.
But there were never two wills in Christ.
For He said,
“I and the Father are one.” — John 10:30
“I do nothing on My own but speak just what the Father has taught Me.” — John 8:28
The moment in Gethsemane was not a struggle between two separate selves.
It was the Word made flesh yielding the illusion of separation—
not for His sake,
but for ours.
There, in the olive press of the garden,
Christ was transfiguring the Adamic mind—
the ego-mind that believes it can have a life, a will, a future apart from God.
It was not surrender from fear.
It was union dissolving duality.
He bore the tension of humanity's illusion of self-will—
and then released it.
He modeled the dissolving of false identity into divine union.
And beloved, now that same Christ lives in you.
You do not need to fear God's will.
You do not need to “surrender” as if you are giving up something precious.
For in truth,
God’s will is not something you obey from the outside—
it is the very flame within you.
The will of God is not imposed from above—
it emerges from within.
You are not a servant resisting a master.
You are a son revealing the likeness of your Father.
You are a daughter expressing the divine design.
When the veil of separation is lifted, you discover:
There is no longer “my” will versus “His” will—
for the two have become one in Christ.
This is the end of spiritual striving.
This is the joy of divine flow.
The river does not resist the Source.
It simply moves as one with the current of Love.
So when Christ said,
“Not My will, but Yours be done,”
He was revealing the sacred undoing of the illusion of duality—
and welcoming us into the eternal YES of union.
Now, in Him, you do not wrestle with the Divine—
You walk as the Divine.
You are not resisting God’s will—
You are the radiant unfolding of it.
🔥 Key Scriptures for Reflection:
Luke 22:42 – “Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done.”
John 5:30 – “I seek not My own will but the will of Him who sent Me.”
Philippians 2:13 – “For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.”
John 17:21–23 – “That they may be one, just as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You…”
— Joe Restman