Man’s highest privilege is to will to do God’s will. It is his most godlike privilege. To live entirely within the will of God is to have the reigning of peace, righteousness, and harmony everywhere. This was God’s purpose in His universe. All of the angelic beings, as well as man, was made to be obedient subordinates of God the Creator. However, Satan’s pride led to self-will; self-will led to rebellion; rebellion led to the refusal of authority, and the refusal of authority led to lawlessness. Satan had stepped outside the will of God and became a rebel. He then tempted Adam and Eve to do the same. As a result of their yielding to Satan’s temptation, the will of mankind has been off the main track ever since.

If man is not willing to submit to the will of God, which is always kind, beneficent, and loving, surely, he will not submit to the will of his fellow man which is often selfish, oppressive, and tyrannical. Today, the world of commerce, politics, industry, education, and even religion, are all intersected and built by the cleverness of masterful minds whose desire is to satisfy their own greedy thirst for power over other men’s lives or their unquenchable appetite for other men’s possessions. A description of the corruption sin made in man’s will and of the lengths of lawlessness into which it led him, is given in these heavenly-inspired verses:

Judges 17:6

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Romans 8:7

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

G. Campbell Morgan, The Crises of the Christ, sums up the ruin wrought in the

human soul by Adam’s fall as follows: “Thus in the spiritual part of his nature, man

by the fall has become unlike God, in that his intelligence operates wholly within the

material realm, whereas the divine wisdom is spiritual, and therefore explanatory of

all material facts; his emotion acts from wrong principles of self-love, whereas the

divine love ever operates upon the principle of love for others; and his will asserts itself

upon the basis of passion for mastery, whereas the divine will insists upon obedience,

through determination to serve the highest interests of others.”

Source: “Life on the Highest Plane” by Ruth Paxson

Precious Lord, by Your life, may You restore within us the privilege to will to live entirely within the will of God.

In Him,

Marion