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not regard this will as their highest joy ?
Wherefore
is it that the petition, "Thy will be done as in
heaven," is for the most part coupled with thoughts
of the severe, the trying elements in the will of God,
of the impossibility of our always rejoicing in God'a
will. The cause is this : we do not take pains to
know the will of God in its glory and beauty, as the
emanation of love, as the source of power and joy, as
the expression of the perfection of God. We think
of God's will only in the law that He gave and that
we cannot keep, or in the trials in which this will
appears in conflict with our own. O let us no longer
do this, but take pains to understand that in the will
of God all His love and blessedness are comprehended
and can be apprehended by us. ^
Hear what the word says about the will of God
and the glorious things that are destined for us in
this will.
" This is the will of my Father, that every one that
"beholdeth the Son and believeth on Him should
have eternal life." The will of God is the rescue of
sinners by faith in Christ. He that surrenders himself
to this glorious will to seek souls shall have the
assurance that God will bless His work to others ; for
he carries out God's will, even as Jesus did it.'
"It is not the will of your Father which is in
heaven that one of these little ones should perish."
The will of God is the maintenance, the strengfthening,
the keeping of the weakest of His children.
1 Gal. i. 4 ; Bph. i. 5, 9, ii ; Heb. x. 10.
» John iv. 34, V. 30, vi. 38, 40.
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