Thy Will Be Done by Andrew Murray

40 Thy Will Be Done
desire.
Seek in meditation to get some right impression
of its glory. Ask for the Holy Spirit's teaching
to give you a spiritual vision of the infinite
energy^ of the Divine Love, as it wills nothing but
good to every one of its creatures. It needs time
and thought and prayer; it
needs the giving up of
all our self-satisfaction with our limited views of
God's will ; it needs an opened, thirsty heart longing
to be filled with the fulness of God and His will, if
we are in our measure to have this will of love dwell
in us and possess us. It needs above all, the indwelling
of the Christ, in whom that will realised
and manifested itself, to make us partakers of His
own Spirit and disposition. We then can know
something of that infinite will of love working itself
out through us, filling the little vessel of our will
out of its
own living stream, and making the will of
God indeed our will.
We have seen that it is doing the will of God
that is
the glory of heaven, the way to heaven, our
likeness to the Elder Brother, and the food of our
spiritual life. Let us begin doing the will of God
in this aspect too, really giving ourselves to Him
for this saving of the lost. It will waken within
us the capacity of apprehending better the glory
of the Divine will that none of the little ones