Drawn To Obey

Come, sit, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee in the comfort of the Lord:  "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away from us, with all malice."  Ephesians  4:31

                                                                    Drawn  To  Obey

                "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure."
                                                                     Philippians  2:13

     God's promise is that he will work in us to will as well as to do of His good pleasure.  This means, of course that He will take possession of our will, and work it for us; and that His suggestions will come to us, not so much commands from the outside as desires springing up within.  They will originate in our will; we shall feel as though we desired to do so and so, not as though we must.  And this makes it a service of perfect liberty; for it is always easy to do what we desire to do, let the accompanying circumstances be as difficult as they may.  Every mother knows that she could secure perfect and easy obedience in her child if she could only get into that child's will and work it for him, making him want himself to do the things she willed he should.  And this is what our Father, in the new dispensation, does for His children; He "writes his laws on our hearts on our minds," so that our affection and our understanding embrace them, and we are drawn to obey instead of being driven to it.