The New Life

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The New Life.
God's will, and make the choice that that our life on
earth shall be. And let us with prayer and meditation
suffer ourselves to be led of the Spirit to know
this will aright.^
When we have thus learned to know the will of
God on its glorious heavenly side in the word, and
have done it, it will not be difl&cult for us also to
bear this will where it appears to be contrary to our
nature. We shall be so filled with the adoration of
God and His will, that we shall resolve to see, and
approve, and love this will in everything. And it
will be the most glorious thought of our life that
there is to be nothing, nothing, in which the will of
God must not be known and honored.^
O my Father, this was the glory of the Lord Jesus,
that He did not His own will, but the will of His
Father. This His glory I desire to have as mine.
Father, open mine eyes and my heart to know the
perfection, the glory of Thy will, and the glory of a
life in this will. Teach me to understand Thy will
aright, then willingly and cheerfully to execute it
and where I have to hear it, to do this also with filial
adoration. Amen.
1. To do the will of God from the heart in prosperity is the
only way to bear this will from the heart in suffering.
2. To do the will of God, I must know it spiritually. The
light and the power of the Spirit go together : what He teaches
1 Rom. xii. 2 ; Col. i. 9, iv. 12 ;
Heb.
x. 36, xiii. 21.
2 Ps. xlii. 9 Matt. xxvi. 39 Heb. x. ; 7, 9.
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