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His good pleasure. Your whole nature will then be brought under the
control of the Spirit of Christ, and even your thoughts will be subject
to Him.
You cannot control your impulses, your emotions, as you may
desire; but you can control the will, and you can make an entire
change in your life. By yielding up your will to Christ, your life will
be hid with Christ in God and allied to the power which is above all
principalities and powers. You will have strength from God that will
hold you fast to His strength; and a new light, even the light of living
faith, will be possible to you. But your will must cooperate with God’s
will.—
Testimonies for the Church 5:513, 514
(1889).
The Link That Binds With Divine Energy—We are laborers
together with God. This is the Lord’s own wise arrangement. The
cooperation of the human will and endeavor with divine energy is the
link that binds men up with one another and with God. The apostle
says, “We are laborers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry,
ye are God’s building” (
1 Corinthians 3:9
). Man is to work with the
facilities God has given him. “Work out your own salvation with fear
and trembling,” He says. “For it is God which worketh in you both to
will and to do of His good pleasure” (
Philippians 2:12, 13
).—MS 113,
1898.
When the will is placed on the Lord’s side, the Holy Spirit takes
that will and makes it one with the divine will.—Lt 44, 1899.
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