Thy Will Be Done by Andrew Murray

34 Thy Will Be Done
cause is simple. They do not feed on the food on
which Christ fed. Two children, or two men, may
be equally healthy, but the difference of food may
make all the difference between their strength and
success in the work of life. The believer has the
same eternal life that was in Christ Jesus. But it
needs the same daily food if there is to be any measure
of that conformity which God expects and has
provided for. Our Lord tells us : My meat is that I
do the will of Him that sent Me, He that eats of
this meat shall have the life more abundant, shall be
satisfied as with marrow and fatness.
And what can be the reason of so much failure
in feeding on this heavenly food? It m.ay be that
the Church has not taught it
as clearly as was needed.
Or that we heard and heeded not. Or that
when we did heed, we were deceived by the lie of
Satan that this was too hard a path. And yet the
Lord has said it so plainly: The will of God is the
glory of heaven ; the doing of God's will ought to be
our great prayer on earth. The doing of God's will
is the only pass to heaven, the only mark of the
family likeness in the home of Jesus.
The doing of
God's will the only food on which a child of God
can thrive and be able to accomplish the work the
Father has given us to do. The doing of God's