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The Will and the Willingness

From the March 1973 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Many would say, "My greatest struggles have been with self-will." Yet each of us has the innate ability to know the will of God. It is a talent of spiritual intuition. It may run silent, run deep, but it surfaces in Christian Science through sincere study and prayer. And when we know the will of God, what need remains but the willingness to do it? Is not this the well-laid pattern of demonstration: the will of God and the willingness of man?

The spiritual fact that there is only one Mind has its counterpart: there is only one will. The omnipotent is the omnivolent: the one all-powerful divine will. God's presence and power are infinite. His will is the voice of command in the Scriptures: "I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."Gen. 17:1;

This almighty will, which in truth we reflect, simply rules out imperfection as unreal. Itself perfect, it perfects everything it touches in the human consciousness. The effect? Healing and demonstration. Why? Because the spiritually-minded feel the pulse of this will insistently throbbing in thought. They do not live on the razor-edge of indecisive personal will and its dualism. They stand fast on the norm of spiritual expression: "Not my will, but thine, be done."Luke 22:42;

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