The Willing Mind by William Covert

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 21, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 50.

The Willing Mind

By William Covert

To will to do God's will, puts one in a proper attitude to do that which is commanded. When my faculties become the faculties of the divine will, I can train under God for a home in the land of light.

The members of my personal being have no separate plans of their own to follow, but all are operated by the Lord's will blended into my being. And when one is as wholly submitted to the will of God as the members of his personal being are controlled by his personal will, he can yield unquestioning obedience to God.

To do the things that are known to be advised by God, makes one know he is God's obedient child. Unquestioning obedience to the known will of God makes a confident and satisfied life.

There is such a thing as minding the Spirit, and this minding has life and peace in possession for the one who follows in this way. But if the flesh is followed, the following leads the traveler into death.

It was the following of the Spirit that kept Christ, and that raised Him from the dead. There is no bondage in such following, but there is attentive listening and willing obedience in it.

This is the yielded, willing way in which the children of God walk. In this way, God is ever present, and His word is made the lesson book. Keeping close to Him in the way, one cannot be lost. Walking at close range, he hears what God says, and sees what He does. Indeed, there is in this yielded will such close union with the Lord that obedience to Him is instinctive. The one having adopted Him as his all in all, finds that ideal union of which it is written, “In Him we live, and move, and have our being.”

WILLIAM COVERT.