It sounds very difficult to accept because we often think that we are doing great things to please God and He is very happy with us and our lives. But it may not be so. At the end of the world when Jesus will come again in all His glory to judge the world again, it is possible that we may hear from Jesus, "I never knew you; go away from me, you evildoers"(23).
Jesus is placing before us a big challenge that is recognizing 'our will' and 'God's will'. We know that Jesus always did the will of His Father. To recognize the will of His Father He always spent long hours in prayers and we too can adopt this method.
For Jesus doing the will of God always came along with struggles and suffering - for example accepting the cross to save humanity from perishing. Similarly in our lives too, to do the will of God it pains us often. But when we compare the pain and suffering of this present world with the Joy and happiness in the next world, which is heaven, we can always feel at home.
So let us take up some pain, some suffering if it requires us to do the will of God. Sometimes or most often our will is contradictory to the will of God. For example, I want to go shopping or see a movie with my friends but what God wants is that I visit my neighbor who is sick. Living a holy life following the commandment of Jesus that of love we can easily recognize the will of God. Let us pray to the Holy Spirit to guide us.
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