Sept. 20

Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook

PERFECT WILLINGNESS

   "Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power" Ps. 110:3

   Blessed be the God of grace that it is so! He has a people whom He has
   chosen from of old to be His peculiar portion. These by nature have
   wills as stubborn as the rest of the froward sons of Adam; but when the
   day of His power comes, and grace displays its omnipotence, they become
   willing to repent, and to believe in Jesus. None are saved unwillingly,
   but the will is made sweetly to yield itself. What a wondrous power is
   this, which never violates the will, and yet rules it! God does not
   break the lock, but He opens it by a master-key which He alone can
   handle.

   Now are we willing to be, to do, or to suffer as the Lord wills. If at
   any time we grow rebellious He has but to come to us with power, and
   straightway we run in the way of His commands with all our hearts. May
   this be a day of power with me as to some noble effort for the glory of
   God and the good of my fellow-men! Lord, I am willing; may I not hope
   that this is a day of thy power? I am wholly at thy disposal; willing,
   yea, eager, to be used of thee for thy holy purposes. O Lord, let me
   not have to cry, "To will is present with me, but how to perform that
   which I would, I find not," but give me power as thou givest me will.