Waggoner on the Gospel of John - Ellet J. Waggoner

exercised to give us life and happiness. "It is not
the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one
of these little ones should perish."
"This is the will of God, even your
sanctification." (1 Thess. 4:3) He says, "Be ye
holy, for I am holy." (1 Peter 1:16) Certainly; that
is most fitting; for the son is heir of the father. We
are children of God, and if children, then heirs. So
of course we must be holy, since holiness is His
nature. To be sons of God means nothing else than
to be partakers of the Divine nature. So as it is His
will that we should be His sons, it is His will that
we should be holy. His will is made known to us in
His Word. When we hear His Word, we have
simply to say from the heart, "Thy will be done,"
and it will be so, even as "it was so" when He
spoke in creation, saying, Let this and that be.
There is eternal power in the thought of God.
Everything that we can see in the visible creation is
but the product of His thought. So if we accept His
thought, His will, we shall be made to the praise of
the glory of His grace.
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