To be near unto God - pagina 161
No, the doing of God's will covers all of life, and the ordinary as well as the extraordinary, far the knowledge of God's will in common life is finer,
more
intricate
and more
difficult
than
it
is
To know what extraordinary things. God's will is in our personal life, in our busmess several conor profession, in the family with its general, nections, in society and in the world in on this side of the is a study that is never ended is grave. To learn not only what God's will according to it, and it all, but to bend the mind minutest to conform the life to it, even to its but a daily detail, is not only a daily study, in which he alone triumphs who is led
in
those
m
struggle, Spirit of
by the
He who appHes
God. himself to this,
who makes
this
understand Gods will, and with every victory gained increases also in which he the knowledge of God. A knowledge with does not acquire with his understanding, but The more we begin to his whole personality.
his daily task, learns to
mimied
become *-el as God feels, and the more we children ao God is, the more truly do we become then we will of the Father who is in heaven. For only not think that we do the will of God, when tJut once in a while there is heroic self-demal. we will understand that to do the will of God is that we to be so changed of mind and inclination
who
And he ourselves wiU what God wills. this, of attains unto this and is daily engaged in by himself increases in the knowledge of God increasing in the knowledge of himself. This wUl be plain when we remember that Being and Will in God are not two, but one. his God's will is the crystal-pure expression of 157
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