Willing the Will

Fellow Labourers-

This article reminds me of Pastor Stewart's message on Choices. Some of us make choices that seems inimical to common sense and social order, and yet we will find support for our action. They say the mind is a terrible thing to waste, but couldn't this be say of the will also. More and more I am realizing how powerful one's will can be. We can will to be sick as well as will to be well. Jesus asked the lame man, "Will thou be made whole?" In other words what do you will, wholeness or sameness. Sometimes the will needs to be coaxed and at other times it must be shocked into action. The prodigal was shocked into action when he came to himself, he said, I will.

As children of God we should not allow circumstances to dictate to us. And as I write two verses from my devotional text for today spring to mind. "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. "2 Corinthians 4:17-18. In reading the article I see how distinctly different we react to situations. Isn't it customary among us to use rain as an excuse not to go outdoors? For these Northwestern Americans staying in doors when it rains is not an option. If you have been putting off something important today will to get it done. Make a list of all that needs to done in the next thirty days and will the will to get them done.

Pax Vobiscum

Robert A. Stewart