For the link in our being wherewith to close the circle of
immortal oneness with the Father, we must of course search the deepest
of man's nature: there only, in all assurance, can it be found. And
there we do find it. For the _will_ is the deepest, the strongest, the
divinest thing in man; so, I presume, is it in God, for such we find it
in Jesus Christ. Here, and here only, in the relation of the two wills,
God's and his own, can a man come into vital contact--on the eternal
idea, in no one-sided unity of completest dependence, but in willed
harmony of dual oneness--with the All-in-all. When a man can and does
entirely say, 'Not my will, but thine be done'--when he so wills the
will of God as to do it, then is he one with God--one, as a true son
with a true father. When a man wills that his being be conformed to the
being of his origin, which is the life in his life, causing and bearing
his life, therefore absolutely and only of its kind, one with it more
and deeper than words or figures can say--to the life which is itself,
only more of itself, and more than itself, causing itself--when the man
thus accepts his own causing life, _and sets himself to live the will
of that causing life_, humbly eager after the privileges of his
origin,--thus receiving God, he becomes, in the act, a partaker of the
divine nature, a true son of the living God, and an heir of all he
possesses: by the obedience of a son, he receives into himself the very
life of the Father.
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