Thy Will Be Done by Andrew Murray

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DOING GOD'S WILL, OUR FOOD
" I have meat to eat that ye know not of. My meat is to
do the will of Him that sent Me, and to accomplish His
work."
WHEN
John iv. 32, 34.
satisfy
tempted in
the wilderness by Satan to
His hunger by a miracle Christ answered:
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by
every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
The life is more than bread. God's word, received
and obeyed, is the true nourishment of our life.
In the Beatitudes Christ spake :
Blessed are they that
hunger and thirst after righteousness, after the
doing of what is right ; they shall be satisfied. And
so He says here of Himself that to do the will of
Him that sent Him, and to accomplish His work,
is
the m^eat that He eats, the food by which He lives.
\, The hidden manna is God's will ; to do it is to eat and
live.
Let us think what this eating teaches us.
Eating means the maintenance of life.—All created
life must be supported by nourishment from
without, if it is not to die. And the food must ever
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