AS GOD WILLS | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 31, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 13.

AS GOD WILLS.

THE soul that fully confides in God has no will of its own; that is, its will is absorbed in God's will. It cherishes no thought, desire, or purpose; it forms no resolution, speaks no word, performs no action, but what it believes to be in harmony with the revealed will of the divine mind. It is in such a state of freedom from the world, and from the power of its own natural appetites and propensities, that there is nothing within to check the influences of the Holy Spirit, or prevent his full and free operation on the mind and heart. It has no choice or preference of its own, no measures or schemes or projects of its own, apart from the will of Heaven; it seeks and believes for the guidance of infinite wisdom in all things. Even the desire which is according to nature is controlled, or rather, it is swallowed up in the desire of him who is the purifier and sanctifier, and who will shortly be the glorifier of our humanity.—Selected.