The Will of God

 The following is from A. B. Simpson's book A Larger Christian Life:

"This is at once the limitation and the inspiration of our faith and prayer. 'If we ask anything ACCORDING TO His will He heareth us.' 'The Spirit maketh intercession for the saints ACCORDING TO the will of God.'

"Beyond this our desires and our aspirations cannot go, but beyond it they need not desire to go, for within it lie all the probabilities of blessing which a human and immortal life can receive; and God's chief desire is to get us to see how much it means of blessing for us.

"As we have often said, there is no vaster prayer within the reach of faith than the simple sentence, 'Thy will be done.' This will must mean for each of us our highest possible good.

"We know it includes our salvation, if we will accept salvation, for 'God will have all men to be saved.'

"We know it includes our sanctification, for 'this is the will of God, even your sanctification.'

"We know it includes our deliverance from physical evil if we will receive it in His Name in faith and obedience, for He has said, 'I will. Be thou clean.'

"We know it includes every needed blessing that the obedient can require, for He has said, 'He will withhold no good thing from them that walk uprightly.'

"The apostle's prayer for his beloved friends was that they might have fulfilled in them 'all the good pleasure of His goodness'; and that they might 'prove that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.'  

"Beloved, are you measuring up to this divine rule? Are you meeting all your Father's will? Are you walking 'worthy of Him to all pleasing,' and having fulfilled the benediction and prayer that 'He may make you perfect in all things to do His will, working in you, that which is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever and ever? Amen.'"