Lesson 18: Practical Because its Nature is Organized
“The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way” Psalm 37:23

For the reasons stated, we grant that the Will of God should be the best law of life for man. Having granted so much, a new question immediately arises: Is the doing of the Will of God possible to man? An ideal that cannot be realized may be a vision of beauty, but it lacks the essential element that creates the true ideal - that, namely, of practical life. Men do not climb after the inaccessible. Men make no effort to walk to the moon. Grant the accessibility, and distance becomes an incentive to going. The Will of God is practicable for three reasons:
1. Because of its nature.
2. Because it is revealed.
3. Because of supernatural power, given to those who will to do it.
We proceed to deal with these three statements in these three sections.

The Will of God includes and organizes all that God has created. Doing the Will of God does not consist in the development of the spiritual side of man's nature at the expense of the other sides. The apostle prayed for the Thessalonian Christians, that their "spirit and soul and body" might "be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Thessalonians 5:23).

We are suffering from the art of the Old Masters. They gave men a wrong concept of God and of sainthood.


A fair sample of the concept of sainthood which the Old Masters gave the world was that they lifted men and women out of the ordinary experiences of human life and put them on impossible planes. This was due to a mistaken belief of the Will of God. These men did not understand that God does not call men away from the common places of the busy days, but conditions their life within them until the smallest thing flashes and gleams with the glory of the heavens.
The Will of God touches us at every point in our life because He is interested in all its details. This is illustrated by some of the most simple and exquisite statements of Scripture.

"Put my tears in Your bottle" (Psalm 56:8).
"The steps of a man are established by the Lord" (Psalm 37:23).
"You Know my going out and my coming in" (Psalm 121:8).
"You know when I sit down and when I rise up" (Psalm 139:2).
God among His people gathering up their tears, ordering their steps, knowing their going out, their coming in, their down-sitting, their uprising. Then hear the words of Jesus.
"The hairs of your head are all numbered" (Luke 12:7).
"Not a sparrow falls to the ground apart from your Father" (Matthew 10:29).
"Take no anxious thought…your Father knows what you need" (Matthew 6:8).

If these sentences teach us anything, they teach the intense interest of God in the smallest detail of the life of His children, in what we eat, in what we wear, in our recreation, in our homes, in the hidden facts of character. He is so interested that He takes us one by one and thinks of, and arranges for, every detail of our life. To Him there are no little things. What we call great things are but the perfect union of the small ones, and every small one has the element which makes the greatness of the great ones.

Question: Is the doing of the Will of God possible to man?
Let's reflect on, even memorize: “The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way” ‒ Psalm 37:23