Article February 5, 1955 Issue

"THY WILL BE DONE"

DORIS A. LEWIS

Christ Jesus taught us to pray (Matt. 6:10), "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." Do we feel that God's will is something that demands the impossible? Or perhaps that His will is to deprive us of the good and pleasant things in life? Do we regard the doing of God's will as dull righteousness or drab piety? Such an unhappy concept of God would make of Him a taskmaster, and the doing of His will mournful self-discipline. This is not the divine will and pleasure of which Paul wrote to the Philippians (Phil. 2: 13), "It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure."

What is God's will? How can His will be done? Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 597), "Will, as a quality of so-called mortal mind, is a wrongdoer; hence it should not be confounded with the term as applied to Mind or to one of God's qualities." Christian Science shows us that the will of God is wisdom, intelligence, power, dominion, perfection. As man is the image and likeness of his Maker, he must of necessity reflect divine qualities, and in the measure that we demonstrate these qualities, they bring health, harmony, and happiness into our human lives.

God's will created the universe. The Bible tells us that "he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast" (Ps. 33:9). Everything real then, including man, is the expression of God's will. When one understands this and acts accordingly, he is able to think clearly and correctly. He makes right decisions and is never impatient or impulsive. He expects only good and awaits the orderly unfoldment and spiritual development of good in his experience. Good, then, is what worketh in us both to will and to do of God's pleasure.

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