Thy Will Be Done by Andrew Murray

44 Thy Will Be Done
He had a will, with which to decide whether he
should act according to the will of God or not.
Sin
only came when man held to his own will as creature
in opposition to the will of God.
As man, made like
unto us in all things, " in all points tempted Hke as
we are, yet without sin," Christ had a human will;
for instance, to eat when He was hungry, or to
shrink from sufifering when He saw it coming. We
know how in the temptation in the wilderness, He
kept the former, in the prospect of His death, the
latter, in perfect subjection to the Father's will.
(Matt. iv. 4; Luke xii. 50; John xii. 2y,^ It is just
this that gives its infinite worth to His sacrifice; it
was the unceasing sacrifice of His human will to the
Father. '' I seek not Mine own will, but the will of
Him that sent Me."
These words reveal to
us the inmost meaning of
Christ's redemption. They teach us what the life
is
for which we were created, and out of which we
fell in Paradise. They show us wherein the sinfulness
of that fallen state consists out of which Christ
came to deliver us: He seeks to free us from our
self-will. They reveal to us the true creature-life
and the true Son-life, perfect oneness of will with
God's will. They open to us the secret power of
Christ's redeeming work—atoning for our self-will