Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1917 GoD's WILL 359
all sickness, sorrow, pain, and death result from broken
law.
The unhappy condition of hatreds and strife are
because of violating what we term moral laws, or those
laws of right action toward one another.
This present world-war which threatens to destroy our
present civilization, and send us back toward if not into
barbarism, is the result of violating the law of right
action. It is because God's will regarding man's treatment
of his fellow man has not been done but has been
violated, that this war exists. This is equally true of all
strifes and injustice in the world. If God's will were to
be done on the earth by all its inhabitants there would
be universal peace, harmony, and happiness.
We read in Genesis that God's will concerning man is
that he should become Godlike, and that he should dominate
all nature and all living things in nature.
For one
to become sick because of violated natural law and then
to say, "It is God's
will," is a statement which assumes
God to be an unkind Father, if not a tyrannical avenger.
If it is God's will that man should dominate and control
all the forces and powers in nature, then it is not God's
will that the forces in nature should control him and
make him sick or unhappy, and cause him to die. In
other words, it is God's will that man should conquer all
sickness and all evil conditions; and not that they should
conquer him.
God's will is exprest in his laws, all of God's laws are
natural laws, and man cannot control nature's
forces until
he learns nature's laws. And the term "Thy will be
done on earth as it is done in heaven,"
implies that man
must have a wide if not a complete knowledge of natural
laws, and action in harmony therewith.
of perfect harmony with natural law means a
And a life
life of
perfect health and happiness.
The words of God to his people express his will to-