You Can Control Will.—But you need not despair It is for you to yield up your will to the will of Jesus Christ, and as you do this God will immediately take possession and work in you to will and to do of 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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