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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 30, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 18.

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SUBMIT YOURSELVES

The King’s Messenger

HUMAN nature rebels against submission, and it is a difficult lesson to learn. To displace our will, and replace it by His will, is a trying ordeal through which we need to pass. The great lesson we may learn is continually to submit our way to His way, and our will to the will of the Holy Spirit, who in all things is to be our guide. Yield ourselves. Accept Him. Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Learn of Him. Be taught by Him of the supreme excellence of His will concerning us, and of the blessedness of submitting to that will.
Easy and delightful is this submission. We are apt to think of it as hardship, as oppressive, as disturbing and destroying. Not so! It is a privilege to have ours lost in His. It is joy and gladness to be swallowed up in Him. It is wisdom to have our ignorance submerged in His knowledge, and our weakness lost in His almightiness?
Are we learners? Do we sit at His feet, and are we letting Him take of the things of God and make them known unto us? Have we learned—are we learning—the sweet lessons of submission?
When we do,—when we cease from ourselves, and stop desiring and demanding our own way, but give ourselves to Him to have His way; when we cease from pleading and praying for Him to alter His purpose to accept ours, to please us, and the cry of our soul is, “Thy will be done,”—then the morning has come, the day has dawned, the clouds have scattered; the singing of the birds and the incense of the flowers and the music of the atmosphere, fills our senses with gladness, and overflows our souls with joy. Life is exultant, death is glorious, and He makes all things work together for good.
Hail, submission! His will, His power, His glory! When our eye becomes single, our whole body is full of light. Then His will becomes ours, and ours His, and there is but one will. That will will prevail,—all failures will turn into successes, all disappointments will disappear. Blessed! “My will is the will of my God!”—no friction, no fighting without nor fears within. Great peace—my peace—a peace that passeth understanding—the peace of God! No opposition to His will! A yielding—yielding is strength, submission is bliss.
Let us learn submission, and be glad to submit ourselves.