How do we know the will of God?  As Christians, particularly those living in the U.S., wonder how to respond to the actions of the new presidential administration, their feelings are mixed.  Some support his actions unreservedly, believing them to be of God.  Yet others oppose them just as passionately, and reject any notion that they reflect the will of God.

    Who's right?  Let's consider Jesus' words in the Garden of Gethsemane, words recorded in all three synoptic gospels--Matthew, Mark, and Luke--to God, namely, "Father, if it is possible, let this cup [his impending and certain crucifixion] pass from me; yet not as I will, but as you will," and ask ourselves this question:  can we be this unreservedly committed, too?

    Unlike us, Jesus knew all too well what God's specific will was for him.  And he wished that he could avoid it.  Yet Jesus told God he accepted whatever would come.  As should we.  We wander in this world as largely blind creations, really, confused and bewildered creatures who, through no choice of our own, find ourselves with sentient existence, find ourselves with lives of hopes, ambitions, passions, and dreams.  But we do not know what will come next.

    And we never will.  We'll never see everything.  In his humanness, Jesus didn't, either.  But he submitted; he opened himself to what he couldn't know.  Then he knew.