GOD'S WILL IS BEST AND PERFECT. To know and to do, is every man's supreme duty and delight. The will of God concerning a sinner is, that he should believe Him, love Him, obey Him. His will concerning a believer is, that he should reverence His authority, receive His word and observe His precepts. God's preceptive will revealed in the New Testament is plain, and that is to be the rule of our conduct. Here is a duty to be performed, to do the will of God: to do it, though it excite the opposition of our fellow men, though it cross our natural inclinations. We are to do the Father's will, to perform the Master's command, to keep our Sovereign's laws, to obey our Saviour's precepts. The manner in which that will is to be done is also pointed out: from the heart. As every evil proceeds from the heart depraved by sin, so every good thing proceeds from the heart renewed by grace. "Doing the will of God from the heart," that is, not by constraint but willingly, from the heart, that is, from conviction, from love; we should do it heartily, throwing all our energies into it. Beloved, are you seeking to know the will of God? Are you willing to do it from the heart?

For Meditation:
Be Christ my pattern and my guide,
His image may I bear;
O may I tread His sacred steps,
And His bright glories share!