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Responding to the will of God
The Bible abounds in illustrations of the necessity and blessings of adhering to God's will. Moses, for example, learned of the inescapable requirements of obedience to God when he was sent to liberate the Israelites from their bondage under Egyptian rule. The challenge was great, but the reward was sure—freedom for the children of Israel, a land of promise, and the covenant of the Father's perpetual care.
In the life of Christ Jesus we can see the supreme example of what is involved in responding to the will of God. Each step of his holy ministry was taken in accordance with divine directives. He proved the perfect dominion that comes from abiding by God's law in thought, word, and action. Even at Gethsemane, knowing what lay ahead with the crucifixion and from the depths of his struggle, the Master had prayed to his heavenly Father, "Nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." Luke 22:42. Jesus' life and healing work had already provided convincing evidence that the divine will is always good. And Jesus must have seen beyond the cross to the glory of the resurrection that awaited his triumph over mortality.

October 25, 1982 issue
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How to be set free
PETER B. VANDERHOEF
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Prayer and voting
GLORIA ELAINE MARLATT
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Scriptural law
FRANCES DILL
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God's law of reciprocation
LOUIS H. KAMMERER
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We can't stand still ...
FRANK H. CASE
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on overcoming ANXIETY
JACKLYN JEAN WILLIAMS
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Subtract the "self" from self-righteousness!
BARBARA KINSLEY KOEHLER
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Liberating logic
CAROLYN B. SWAN
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Responding to the will of God
WILLIAM E. MOODY
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A change of clothes
KARIN SASS
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Not like chameleons
Frederick H. Brightman
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As a student of Christian Science I have had many proofs of...
CORNELIUS A. GRATTAN with contributions from PATRICIA J. GRATTAN
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A Christian Science healing can come as naturally and as gently...
MYFANWY M. E. SPEIRS
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My gratitude to God for Mary Baker Eddy, who established and...
MARSHA LEE MARTIN with contributions from LYNN LeROY MARTIN