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  SOURCE OF PEACE
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: True happiness and peace arise from the harmonious agreement
between our wills and the will of God, achieved through obedience and
the conquest of self-will.

Topics: "Gods Will", "Inner Peace"
Scripture References: Psalm 128:1, Matthew 7:21, Romans 12:2, James 4:7, 1 John 2:17

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches on the importance of fearing the Lord and
walking in His ways, emphasizing that true happiness and well-being come
from aligning our will with God's will. She highlights that the key to a
divine life and perfect happiness lies in obedience to God's will,
rather than in worldly knowledge or speculation. Tileston stresses that
the ultimate source of misery is self-will, and the path to blessedness
is found in surrendering our wills to God, which brings rest and peace.

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Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in His ways . .
. Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

PSALMS 128:1,2

WE think it a gallant thing, to be fluttering up to heaven with our
wings of knowledge and speculation; whereas the highest mystery of a
divine life here, and of perfect happiness hereafter, consists in
nothing but mere obedience to the Divine will. Happiness is nothing but
that inward sweet delight, which will arise from the harmonious
agreement between our wills and the will of God. There is nothing in the
whole world able to do us good or hurt, but God, and our own will:
neither riches nor poverty, nor disgrace nor honor, nor life nor death,
nor angels nor devils; but willing, or not willing, as we ought.

RALPH CUDWORTH

The one misery of man is self-will, the one secret of blessedness is the
conquest over our own wills. To yield them up to God is rest and peace.
What disturbs us in this world is not "trouble," but our opposition to
trouble. The true source of all that frets and irritates, and wears away
our lives, is not in external things, but in the resistance of our wills
to the will of God expressed by external things.

ALEXANDER MACLAREN

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