May 12,
2003
YOUR
WILL BE DONE
"Your
will be done on earth as it is in heaven" (Matthew 6:10,
NKJV).
"The
will of God is expressed in the precepts of His holy law,
and the principles of this law are the principles of heaven.
The angels of heaven attain unto no higher knowledge than
to know the will of God, and to do His will is the highest
service that can engage their powers.
"But
in heaven, service is not rendered in the spirit of legality.
When Satan rebelled against the law of Jehovah, the thought
that there was a law came to the angels almost as an awakening
to something un-thought of. In their ministry the angels are
not as servants, but as sons. There is perfect unity between
them and their Creator. Obedience is to them no drudgery.
Love for God makes their service a joy. So in every soul wherein
Christ, the hope of glory, dwells, His words are re-echoed,
'I delight to do Your will, O My God, and Your law is within
My heart' (Psalm 40:8).
"The
petition, 'Your will be done in earth
as it is in heaven,' is a prayer that the reign of
evil on this earth may be ended, that sin may be forever destroyed,
and the kingdom of righteousness be established. Then in earth
as in heaven will be fulfilled 'all the good pleasure of His
goodness' (2 Thessalonians 1:11)."--Thoughts From The
Mount Of Blessing, pp., 109, 110.
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