My will is to play with earthly toys. Your will is to work with heavenly tools.
My will is to be comfortable: Your will is to be useful.
My will is to indulge the flesh: Your will is to build up the Spirit.
My will is to criticize and condemn: Your will is to sympathize and help.
My will is to proudly speculate and theorize: Your will is to humbly study and learn.
My will is to leave the work of the Truth to someone else, while I "seek my own things": Your will is to be "always abounding, sharing that which was given me"
My will is to wallow in self-pity: Your will is to "rejoice always."
My will is to complain about trials and troubles: Your will is to count up all the joys, knowing that tribulation teaches patience.
My will is foolish talking and jesting: Your will is gracious and compassionate speech.
My will is to lay up baubles on earth: Your will is to lay up treasure in heaven.
My will leads only steadily downward, to sorrow and death:
Your will leads ever onward and upward, to eternal life and joy.
"Your will, not mine, be done."
By Bro. G.V. "Rene" Growcott
