Q&A 124 What does the third request mean?

"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.¹

 

Help us one and all to carry out the work we are called to,²

as willingly and faithfully as the angels in heaven.³

 

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

 

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