FREE WILL?
Jesus will was dominated by the Supreme Truth. Every man’s will is dominated by his intellect and his emotion. No man’s will is finally free. A free will is evidence of fitness for a lunatic asylum. Man’s will is never free so long as he is rational. It must be dominated by reason. You cannot cross the road without saying or thinking, “I will cross the road,” but you never say, “I will cross the road,” without meaning, “I will cross the road, because . . .” Back of the will is a reason and your will is dominated by something behind. No man ever exercises his will except under the impulse of intellect or emotion. The impulse that controlled the will of Jesus was an intellect homed in eternal principles, an emotion impulsed by infinite love. That is eternal life. Eternal life is not narrow, not of long continuation merely. It is as broad as it is long, as deep as it is high, as magnificent and splendid as it is severe and straight.
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