The New Life

The Will of God.
to see as God's will. He certainly teaches all to do. Meditate
much on Rom. xii. i, and pray earnestly to see God's will aright.
3. Learn always to adore the will of God in the least and the
worst thing that man does to you. It is not the will of God
that man should do what is sinful ; but when man does sin, it is
the will of God that His child should be proved thereby. Say
then always in the least as well as the greatest trials : it is the
will of God that I am in this difficulty. This brings the soul to
rest and silence, and teaches it to honor God in the trial. On
this point read the chapter, "Is God in everything?" in the
excellent little book, "The Christian's Secret of salvation."*
4. When God gave a will to man, He gave him a power
whereby he could accept or rejeet the will of God. Child of
God, pray, open your will to receive the will of God with its full
power, and to be filled with it. This is heavenly glory and
blessedness, to be conscious every day : my will is in harmony
with God's will ; God's will lives in me. It is the will of God to
work this in you.
*[Tkf Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, by H. W. S. F. E-
Longley, chap, viii,, p. 83.—Tr.]
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