I Seek Not Mine Own Will, but the Will Of the Father

What is success? How do we measure our success? Are we happy with the way our life is going? Where do we turn for affirmation that we are doing well? How do we know if the council we receive from someone is correct?
These could possibly be questions posed in the lesson Courtney Werner presented. She mentioned that the ugly head of pride rears itself when we say to ourselves, "I can do that and want to do BY MYSELF." I would say many of us have said that quietly at some time in our lives. Doing so would definitely acknowledge that we need to work on our relationship with our Father in heaven.
“We should bring our wills into subjection to the will of the Father, and feel to say, what is the will of our Father, whom we are here in the world to serve? Then every act that we perform will be a success.” Would you love to know that all that you do is taking you forward to success? Of course you would but then you  have to decide what success requires that is in the afore mentioned quote.
The prophet Lorenzo Snow stated that what he accomplished was not him but our Father. Don't you think that his relationship with the Lord showed how much he trusted and listened to our Father? We can do the same thing without the responsibility of being a prophet. We are all children of our Heavenly Father and He wants to guide us IF we will let him.
Father even guided our brother and Savior when Christ was upon the earth. Christ said,
 ‘I can of myself do nothing; as I hear I judge, and my judgment is just.’ Now, why did He say that His judgment was just? He says, because ‘I seek not my own will but the will of my Father who sent me.’ [See John 5:30.]"
Our Father knows the eternal perspective of our actions and wants to guide us back home to Him if we will let him. We sometimes think we can handle things but we need to stop for a moment and remember  "A grand object that every Latter-day [Saint] ought to have before him constantly. What is that prize? … “All that my Father hath shall be given unto him.” [D&C 84:38.]" That promise should be enough to inspire and help us regain humility and/or courage to follow the prophets.
We can also tackle things that we never thought we could do if we follow Moses's example. Moses told the Lord he wasn't up to the task, that he didn't possess the qualities needed to fulfill the call from the Lord. He called out to the Lord as did other great leaders, as do we when we are called upon to do something that seems too difficult.
 Jeremiah called out the God saying,“I am but a child. How can I accomplish this great work you require at my hands, to discharge these great responsibilities you propose to lay upon my shoulders?” He set his heart and feelings at the idea of doing this great work. But God told him, … for his comfort, “I knew you before I formed you in the belly.” He said He knew him in the [premortal] spirit world, that he would accomplish that which the Lord required at his hands; “and before thou camest forth from the womb, I sanctified thee and ordained thee to be a prophet to the nations.” [See Jeremiah 1:5–6.] He went forth, and through the power of the Almighty, Jeremiah accomplished that which the Lord required at his hands. …"
I like the paragraph in the lesson that says, "We came into the world for a great purpose, the same as Jesus, our elder brother, to do the will and works of our Father; in this there is peace, joy and happiness, an increase of wisdom, knowledge and the power of God; outside of this are no promised blessings." I believe this sentence simply states what we are here to do. It is up to us to decide how obedient we will be to that which we promised we would do before we came to earth. We know we will be blessed through trials and temptations, but it is up to us to turn to God so He can show us the way and shower us with the blessings He has promised. I cannot find one single thing in the previous quote that I would not want in my life. Like my Mom used to say to me, "You can do anything you set your mind to do," and I think our Father in Heaven must have told my Mom to say that to me as it echoes this same quote in so many ways. Let us set out minds to do the Lord's wishes and bask in the promised blessings.
Your bloggess,
Janice