Psalms 40:6-8
40:6 Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern.
You make that quite clear to me!
You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings.
40:7 Then I say,
“Look! I come!
What is written in the scroll pertains to me.
40:8 I want to do what pleases you, my God.
Your law dominates my thoughts.”
Matthew 26:39
26:39 Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed,
“My Father, if possible,
let this cup
pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
Matthew 26:42
26:42 He went away a second time and prayed,
“My Father, if this cup
cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will must be done.”
John 4:34
4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me
and to complete
his work.
John 5:30
5:30 I can do nothing on my own initiative.
Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just,
because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.
John 6:38
6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
John 8:29
8:29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone,
because I always do those things that please him.”
John 12:27-28
12:27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.
12:28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
John 14:30-31
14:30 I will not speak with you much longer,
for the ruler of this world is coming.
He has no power over me,
14:31 but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know
that I love the Father.
Get up, let us go from here.”
John 15:10
15:10 If you obey
my commandments, you will remain
in my love, just as I have obeyed
my Father’s commandments and remain
in his love.
Philippians 2:8
2:8 He humbled himself,
by becoming obedient to the point of death
– even death on a cross!