Thy Will Be Done by Andrew Murray

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28 Thy Will Be Done
ure, the secret of His own blessed Hfe in the will of
God.
And what is that secret ? It is found in the words
our Lord so frequently uses —'' the will of My
Father, which is in heaven.'' Christ was only able
to do and suffer as He did, because it was all to Him
each moment the will of a loving Father.
The will
of the Father was nothing but the experience of the
love of the Father :
therefore He delighted, therefore
He was able, to do it. Many Christians never learn
to understand the difference between the Law of
God and the Will of God. The law is given by
a Ruler, and when embodied in a statute book may
be kept or broken, with very little thought of personal
relationship to the Law-giver. For this
reason the Law has no power to secure obedience.
Christ speaks of the Will as the Will of the Father
the expression of a personal living comm.unication,
in which the Father's voice and presence is ever
known, and the Will never for a moment separated
from Him whose it is. It was the ever-present Love
of God shovving His will, and the ever-blessed enjoyment
of that Love, that enabled Christ to be
obedient even unto death. It is this alone can enable
us to do the Father's will. The grace once for all
. to yield ourselves to do only that will ; the faith to