Path to Peace 3 - Less Me, the Divine Will

This is a continuation from Path to Peace 2 - Living the Divine Will 

Self-peace comes when I do what I love and zealously avoid what I do not (“to thine own self be true”) - and this is "good." Truth-peace comes when I am content with what God calls truth and I do that which He loves and avoids and abhors what He does not; and this is God. When the Prince of Peace is the ruler of my heart, His presence is the rule within my heart, and I then know Soul-peace - and this is the Will of God and it it His purpose for my life.

Peace without a standard is a truce waiting to be broken. It is why the standard, the objective, the all-defining goal must be not the ideals of Christ, but nothing less than the very person of Christ, in submitted obedience to His desire:

...those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren. Rom 8:29 AMPC

God is transforming us into His way of being while we are stuck with our humanity. This duality causes manifested warfare within our souls, and our flesh, our desperate, deceitful hearts, want nothing to do with it. And so we wrestle.

I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love God’s law with all my heart. But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. (Rom 7.21-23 NLT)

[This] sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. (Rom 8.28-30)

Yet surrendering our unwise and unprofitable ways, habits, and attitudes is death because they have courted us patiently and we have loved them so: they have framed our sense and understanding of life. But coming into peace with God is of unparalleled profit in every way. We become sons and daughters of God by dying to what we (our flesh natures) want and by living for what He died for, allowing His thoughts to become our will.

Learning to love the divine will is this lifetime journey. It's my lifetime journey.

It takes patience and agreement with the Word of God to learn and accept His divine will, and just as importantly, time alone with Him, communing on which of our thoughts are acceptable to Him and what is not. In time, we discover what we must learn and accept and let go in order to fill the lack which will cause us to love His divine will.

This article continues in Path to Peace 4 - Humility, the Divine Will

This post is based upon my original Path to Peace series posted in 2018.