We are never to be rebellious or slow to submit to God, but we must be sure that we have done all we can before we fold our hands and say, “Thy will be done.” There come many experiences, however, in which we can do nothing, and can only submit. We must not only ourselves strive faithfully in all things to do the will of God, but must suffer it to be done in us, even when it lays us low in the dust, even when it strips us bare and shatters all our joys. This will is to be accepted, too, not rebelliously, with murmuring and complaint, but songfully, joyfully, lovingly.