Today I was tempted – and aren’t we all at different times? – to use ‘The Impossible Dream’ from The Man of La Mancha as today’s song, but I have used that one a couple of times before. So today I turn to My Way, which I’m sure most will remember sung by Frank Sinatra. His song tells how most of us like to believe we do things.
‘And through it all, I did it my way.’
From what I’ve read and heard I think he mostly did, once his popularity and fame were established. For those of us who are unlikely to attain such heights it’s not that easy, although we often like to think that we can do it ‘my way’. But therein lies a challenge.
We can go through life trying to do only what we want to do and how we want to do it. However, we are invited to do as our Lord Jesus did, and not do it our way but do it God’s way. Jesus had the power, given him by the Father, to do virtually anything he wanted to. But Jesus knew and accepted that he was here for the express purpose of doing what God wanted him to do, so through it all, he did it God’s way.
And that’s our challenge, to try to live the way God wants us to. So each of us needs to try to do it God’s way and for mere mortals it’s not often that easy. We all need His help just to get through each day, and all we have to do is ask and it will be given. Then when
‘The end is near, and I face the final curtain’
we can face our Lord and say “I did my best to do it your way” and hear the response “Come in, my child. Yes, you did it My way.“
Jim Finch
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