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

1917 GoD's WILL 361
kingdom come."
Then let us not say, "Thy will be done," with the
thought that God desires evil toward us, and then settle
down into a condition of supine weakness. But realizing
that all nature is governed by law and that itis
our duty to learn those laws and thru that knowledge to
dominate all nature, we
should
further realize that obedience
to God's wil as exprest in his laws will result in
joy and happiness. Thenlet us 'take the stand that we
will learn and do God's will in order that his kingdom
may come and be established upon the earth.
The kingdomof God can never be established upon
ignorance; there must be knowledge and understanding.
Thru the prophets the Spirit of God spoke to Israel: "For
they know not to do right." (Amos iii. 10.) "Israel doth
not know, my people doth' not consider." (Isa. i. 3.)
"My people are gone into captivity, because they have
no knowledge." (Isa. v. 13.) "My people are destroyed
for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge,
I will also reject thee ,.... seeing thou
hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy
children." (Hosea iv. 6.) "Ye shall know the truth."
No, it is not God's will that his children suffer so, but
his will toward his children is exprest and will be consummated
when there is established upon earth the condition
spoken of by the Revelator when he wrote: "And I
heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with
them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall
be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall
there be any more pain." This is the condition of things
we are asking for when we pray: "Let thy will be done
on earth, as it is done in heaven."