0040. Standing in All the Will of God

Standing in All the Will of God

"I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do" (Joh_17:4).

Certainly our Lord is the only one who has ever stood perfect and complete in all the will of God. Christ never once deviated from the Father’s perfect plan. Therefore as He stood that day in the upper room with the Cross just ahead, and His earth life about completed, He could say, "I have finished the work". There was no task left uncompleted.

May our great aim be all of God’s will. To miss the mark in one small item may bring disaster and dismay.

Let us go all the way with God. No tryst left unkept; no duty left undone.

There are three stages of experience with some–

1. There was the time when, in our sin, we had no room or place for God at all–It is thus expressed by the song:

"Oh the bitter pain and sorrow,

That the time could ever be,

When I proudly said to Jesus,

‘All of self and none of Thee.’"

2. There came a time of conviction. We saw ourselves as lost, and we saw Christ as a Saviour, and yet we would not give up all and follow fully, and then we said:

"Yet He found me; I beheld Him

Bleeding on the accursed tree:

Heard Him pray: ‘Forgive them, Father!’

And my wistful heart said faintly,

‘Some of self, and some of Thee!’"

3. There came a time, soon after, when we opened our hearts and received Christ, and then we sang:

"Higher than the highest Heaven,

Deeper than the deepest sea,

Lord, Thy love at last hath conquered;

Grant me now my supplication–

‘None of self, and ALL of Thee!’"

Now since we are saved may it always be, "all of Thee." We must earnestly seek to stand "perfect and complete in all the Will of God."

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR