Thy Will Be Done by Andrew Murray

22 Thy Will Be Done
of Christ and His work, will in the great day take
the works and the life into account as the proof of
the reality of faith and r.n^^on to Christ, and of the
fitness for entering heaven. As we are saved zvithout
works, we are created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God afore prepared that we should
walk in them. Without these there can be no entrance
into heaven; they are indispensable. The
Master's words are plain and decisive : He that doeth
the will of My Father in heaven, shall enter into the
kingdom of heaven. (Study carefully Matt. xvi.
2y, XXV. 31-46; Rom. ii. 6-7; 2 Cor. v. 10.)
Christ came from heaven to show us that doing
the will of the Father is the one mark of a son of
God, and to save us into doing that will. True conversion
is turning away from our self-will and giving
ourselves to the will of God as our duty and our
only blessedness. I ask every believer who reads
this to inquire, and say whether he thinks that
the doing of the Father's will,
as the one object of
Christ's salvation, and the one preparation for entering
heaven, has taken the place in his life and faith
and conduct, that it had in the life and conduct and
teaching of Jesus Christ. Read the question over
again, and pause ; it is worth while giving a careful
answer.