It is natural to have a desire for good, and since God is good, is this not really a desire to do God's will? Much of humanity has an innate sense of a will higher than its own, one wholly good, wholly separate and apart from the utterly unreliable, unpredictable force called the human will. However, unless one knows what God's will is and how to avail himself of it, he is quite likely to become thwarted and frustrated by the various eccentricities and demands of the human will. He may resist restraint of his will and thus bring on clashes with another's will. Whether suppressed or unrestrained, willful resistance may result in pressure and friction, both of which often dominate the individual, depriving him of spiritual resources and vigor. At other times it may break out in various unaccountable ways which have long been baffling to mankind in general.
The spiritually-minded Leader of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," explains not only how to differentiate between the human will and the divine will, but how one may, if willing to be regenerated, actually make use of the Father's will in his journey Spiritward. Her definition of "will" reads in part (p. 597): "The motive-power of error; mortal belief; animal power. The might and wisdom of God."
The human will needs to be redeemed, not ruthlessly suppressed or destroyed. If we stop to think, we see that a spineless, apathetic individual with no volition of his own is very fertile ground for the operation of evil or animal magnetism. But in Science and Health Mrs. Eddy points out (p. 206), "The power of the human will should be exercised only in subordination to Truth: else it will misguide the judgment and free the lower propensities." Is it not evident that eventually the human will must be exchanged for the divine will?
