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title: 'J.R. Miller on Consecration of Will'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2022-12-29
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2022-j-r-miller-on-consecration-of-will
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# J.R. Miller on Consecration of Will

“The highest reach of faith is loving, intelligent consecration of all our life to the will of God. We are to have desires, but they should be held in subordination to God’s desires and thoughts for us. We are to have plans, but they should be laid down at God’s feet, that he may either let us work them out for him or show us his plan for us instead of our own. Complete consecration of our will to God’s that is the standard of Christian living at which we are to aim. Tennyson puts this well in ‘In Memoriam’ —

‘Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.’

They are ours — we are sovereign in our power of will. They are to be made God’s, but we must make them his; we must voluntarily yield ourselves to God. That is consecration.” — [J.R. Miller](/authors/james-russell-miller), *In Green Pastures: Daily Readings For Every Day in the Year* (1890, 1892), pp. 241-242 (reading for December 29)