p. 9 | Prejudging God’s Will

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 9, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 26.

Prejudging God’s Will

GOD can not show us His will when we have decided beforehand what it ought to be. If a man says, “I am willing to do whatever God wants me to do, but it can’t be that,” he is in rebellion against God, and he blocks the way even to knowing what God would have him do. When he says, “I am willing to do whatever God wants me to do, and it may be that,” everything clears.

A man who was restlessly chafing because of having decided God’s will in advance, finally yielded, and frankly faced the fact that God’s will might include the very things he was assuming it could not include. With this yielding of his own prejudgment, there came an ocean of peace into his life, and a burst of joy, before which the restlessness was dispelled like mist before sunshine. Any duty that God’s will lays upon us becomes literally easy and a delight when His whole will is accepted in Christ. When we leave all the deciding to God, He will give us in Christ all the power to enable us to do what He has decided.—Sunday School Times.