Our Will vs. God’s Will

He who does not intend to obey does not wish to know the law.  If we have no longing to know what the will of the Lord is, we may be very sure that we prefer our own to His.  If we desire to know it, we shall desire to understand the book which contains so much of it.  Any true religion in the heart will make us eager to perceive, and willing to be guided by the will of God, revealed mainly in the Scripture, in the person, works, and words of Jesus, and also in waiting hearts by the Spirit, and in those things which the world calls ‘circumstances’ and faith names ‘providences’.

Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture: Second Kings, Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1977), 374.

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