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Sam. 15:23. It was over this same brook Kedron that Jesus Christ passed on His way to Gethsemane. The
longing for unity with God's will brought David across the brook to his Gethsemane. Unity with God's will
brought Christ across the brook to Gethsemane, and our longing for God's will will also bring us across the
brook that separates us from the purpose of men and the will of the flesh into the garden of His passion where
we become one with Him.
This is an experience that we must face alone. We will not have many friends who can help us through the
darkness of Gethsemane. It was only a few hours before Gethsemane that Jesus said to Judas, "That thou
doest do quickly," and Judas went out and "it was night." It was night in so many ways. It was night for Judas; it
was night for the disciples; it was night for the world; and it was night for Jesus. The darkest loneliest night we
will ever go through is when we pass through our Gethsemane, for this is the place where we pass from our
will to His. The don't-care noisy world will rush on, intent with its business. The don't-care priesthood will be
busy preparing its robes, its sermons and sacrifices for the Sabbath. The professing church will be relentlessly
pushing ahead with its programs. Our best and most devoted friends will all be idly slumbering, and
somewhere there is sure to be a traitor carefully scheming our crucifixion. Gethsemane is the loneliest place in
all the world of spiritual experience. Even Calvary was graced by the presence of a few heart-broken women
and "that disciple whom Jesus loved," but Gethsemane was alone.
How often I have thought of the Gethsemane struggle of self-willed Jacob as he journeyed back to the land of
his fathers after an absence of many years. Gen. 32. He was on his way to meet his twin brother, Esau, who
was coming against him with four hundred men. Esau is the flesh. Jacob, in fear of his brother Esau, sent all
his belongings over the brook and Jacob was left alone to wrestle and gain the victory over the will of the flesh.
Even back there in Genesis 32:23 behold the brook! The same old brook that divides us from our loved ones
and our earthly possessions as we struggle to attain unity with the will of God. The cunning, conniving, old
Jacob nature within every one of us must be confessed and destroyed that our name should be no more
Jacob, but Israel, the prince with God. A prince with God is without doubt a son of God. "Jacob called the
name of the place Peniel, for he had seen God face to face and his life was preserved." Verse 30. Jacob
becomes Israel and Gethsemane becomes Peniel, the face of God.
I tell you in truth that I know by experience that these things are so. Well do I know by experience what it is to
cross over the brook and enter alone into the Garden. I know the heartache of trying to awaken sleeping
brethren only to have them despise and hate you and fall asleep again. I know what it is to see the hand of the
traitor at work hoping to gain by your awful loss, but most of all I know the long, long, lonely hours when no
prayer could pass the lips except to say, "Not my will but Thine be done." It is here and here alone that we
begin to tread the ground of true sonship, for sons must know only God's will. None but those who know God's
will can ever hope to be led by the Spirit. But as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
We said above that the entering in to God's will was in three definite steps. First there comes the mighty
struggle of Gethsemane, the awful clash between the will of man and the will of God. Then second, when the
victory is gained, we will find ourselves meekly submitting, meekly saying "amen" to all the will of God. But
there is a third stage which will eventually come. It is the time when we "delight to do God's will." Psa. 40:8.
Whereas in the beginning we sought to be conformed to God's will, now we hunger and thirst after it. We seek
it out that with joy we may follow it in life or death. The will of God becomes the highest and grandest prize. All
else becomes utter dung by comparison. "I delight to do Thy will, O my God," is the theme of our song from
month to month while our soul is always enquiring to be enlightened with the revelation of His mind for us. The
very thought of living after the counsel of our own will is a repugnant odor in our nostrils, and the evil thought of
counting the cost of following Him never darkens the soul. This indeed is the new will.
With great earnestness I pray that God will open your understanding, for it is of perfect truth that we tell you
that no man can ever hope to reign in the kingdom of Christ until his will has thus become one with the will of
the Father. Were it possible for one man to reign in the kingdom while still possessing his own will and not
being in accord with the will of the Father, confusion, hatred, and rebellion would follow even as it did in lovely
Eden in the beginning. Therefore all who seek the kingdom praying, Thy kingdom come, must first be filled with
the knowledge that His will must be done in earth as it is done in heaven. The will of God in the earth is in truth
the kingdom of God.
TREASURES OF TRUTH, Volume 9, Here Is The Mind That Hath Wisdom [George R. Hawtin] ~ BOOK 40