Your Will!

Your Will!

The following lines are quoted from a poem: “By the Word so strong Your will be done! He forced the power of hell to its knees.” This refers to God’s will.

If we cling wholeheartedly to these words, “Your will be done!” we are invincible in all kinds of temptations, trials, and adversities. It is difficult to find words that are stronger and more liberating than these words: “Your will be done!” By these words we triumph over all evil powers and find rest and comfort at all times.

In this will the Father and the Son became perfectly one, and only in this one will can we become perfectly one. There is no other way to oneness.

God was not pleased with animal sacrifices, but He is pleased with a body that does His will. “Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God.” Heb. 10:7, 9. By this one will we are sanctified once and for all—i.e., separated in our spirit from everything that is not in harmony with this will. In this will Jesus intercedes for us. Rom. 8:27.

Everything that is evil is bound to a person’s self-will. All evil and impure spirits are united with this self-will, spirits such as obstinacy, insubordination, hardness, pride, self-assertion, hate, jealousy, adultery, unrighteousness, lying, vanity, greatness, honor, as well as gain, etc. In Revelation 18 we read that Babylon the great had become a habitation of evil and impure spirits.

This is how it is in the religious world today, more than every before. However, in the midst of all this misery the Lord also has a few who have been elected to something totally different. The voice from heaven is calling out: “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.” V. 4. More and more people are obedient to this voice as they see all kinds of sins enter in. Greatness and the spirit of this world are well placed on the platform and behind the lectern. Terrible situations exist in the religious world today, even though they speak about Jesus coming back soon. For example, a well-known preacher turned to the platform and the music, and he cried as he said, “We have lost!” This occurred in an assembly where they claim to have the power of the Spirit. Does the spirit of the world enter in if we are obedient to the Spirit? Not at all! The spirit of the world enters in because evil and impure spirits have gained power. Then the will of the flesh and of the mind are in control, and wherever this mind gains control arguments and strife are the order of the day.

Every good that can be mentioned is bound to God’s will, which is good, acceptable, and perfect. Rom. 12:2. If we love this will, we will also be filled with its knowledge. Col. 1:9. If we hold on to it, we also hold on to all the promises of the Scriptures. In this one will we are united in the same mind in an eternal and exalted brotherhood.

No one can be a disciple of Jesus unless he hates his self-will and surrenders it into the death of Christ. As we follow Christ as His disciples, the only thing that avails anything is a new creation with a new Spirit and a new will. In this Spirit and will we will also be united with Christ and the saints when the trumpet sounds.