Now the Will of God Is....

Now the will of God is what Christ both did and taught:

• Humility in conversation
• steadfastness in faith
• modesty in words
• justice in deeds
• mercifulness in works
• discipline in morals
• to be unable to do a wrong
  and to be able to bear a wrong when done
• to keep peace with the brethren
• to love God with all one’s heart
• to love Him because He is a Father
• to fear Him because He is God
• to prefer nothing whatever to Christ
  because He did not prefer anything to us
• to adhere inseparably to His love
• to stand by His cross bravely and faithfully
• when there is any challenge on behalf of His name and honor
  to exhibit in our speech a consistent confession
• in torture, that confidence with which we do battle
• in death, that patience whereby we are crowned.

This is the desire to be fellow-heirs with Christ.

This is to do the commandment of God.

This is to fulfill the will of the Father.

- Cyprian, The Treatises of Cyprian: On the Lord’s Prayer, 15 [Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5], adapted

HT: Trevin Wax