The New Life by Andrew

Andrew Murray on The New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples Text
blessedness of heaven must know the Father who is there, and do His will, as it is done in heaven.
(Dan. 4:35)
Da 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to
his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his
hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
'Heaven is an unending holy kingdom, of which the throne of God is the central point. Around this
throne there are innumerable multitudes of pure, free beings, all ordered under powers and dominions.
An indescribably rich and many-sided activity fills their life. All the highest and noblest that keeps
man occupied is but a faint shadow of what finds place in this invisible world. All these beings
possess each their free personal will. The will, however, has in self-conscious freedom, by its own
choice, become one with the holy will of the holy Father, so that, in the midst of a diversity that
flashes out in a million forms, only one will is accomplished -- the will of God. All the rich, blessed
movement of the inhabitants of heaven has its origin and its aim in the will of God.' And why is it
then that His children on earth do 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's 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. (Gal. 1:4; Eph.
1:5,9,11; Heb. 10:10)
Ga 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world,
according to the will of God and our Father:
Eph 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will,
Eph 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure
which he hath purposed in himself:
Eph 1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the
purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
once for all.
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. (John 4:35; 5:30; 6:38,40)
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