Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:10

Another interesting aspect of God’s will is what some refer to as God’s Desired will, or more technically: God’s will of Disposition. What is meant by this is that not everything about what God decrees is pleasing to Him. God takes no delight or pleasure in our sin, for instance—though He decrees our sin for the accomplishment of His greater purposes. (And remember that God is never responsible for our sin!)

Ezekiel 18:20-32 and 33:10-20 both speak of God not delighting in the death of the wicked. Yet because God loves righteous judgment, the wicked must be punished, and the punishment of sinners is God’s will.

Contrariwise, Psalm 116:15 says that the death of His saints (the righteous) is precious to Him. How can that be? Because the end result of the death of the redeemed is the eternal bliss of Heaven—which certainly pleases God!

1 Timothy 2:14 is also related to this when it says God desires that all would be saved. If this desire was according to God’s decretive will, all would be saved. So we must understand this verse in either or both of two ways: Either (a) it is referring to God’s will of disposition, or (b) it is referring to the elect, in which case it is according to God’s decretive will because all of the elect will be saved.

This post is admittedly a bit technical. You might do well to take a breath, ask God for understanding, and read the post again.

There is one last encouraging post in this series on God’s will. Tune in again next time.