Thy Will Be Done by Andrew Murray

32 Thy Will Be Done
concrete expression, capable of being known, and
accepted or rejected. And because the will is the
Divine power in action, so there is no possible way
of assimilating the Divine will but by action on our
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part, that is, by our doing it. It is not the knowledge,
or the admiration, or the approval of the will
of God, but the doing of it that alone feeds the heavenly
life. It is only by doing that I really make it
my own.
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My meat is to do His will."
Eating means the renewal and increase of strength.
—We do not eat just enough to maintain a bare
existence; we desire to have food, both in
quantity
and quality, sufficient to give us strength and vigour
for our work. Doing God's will is the sure way to
become strong.
Many Christians seek their strength
in prayer, in faith, in the promises, in fellowship.
They complain of their feebleness.
They have never
learnt that Christ made doing the will of the Father
His meat; it was this that was rewarded with the
Divine strength for all He had to do. He felt that
He had but one thing to do in the world—to accomplish
the work for which God had sent Him ; as He
did it He received new strength for what He still had
to do. It is this His disciples need. The whole
power of God works in His will.
As I appropriate
that will, and know I am doing the very thing God