Your Will Is Already Aligned
Obedience flows when we yield to the power already within.
📖 Devotional Credit: My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
📸 Photo Credit: Unsplash
Oswald Chambers reminds us that salvation isn’t a passive possession—it’s a living reality meant to be expressed. Once we are saved, our new life in Christ isn’t meant to remain internal. We are called to work out what God has already worked in. That doesn’t mean mustering up strength or forcing obedience. Rather, it means responding to the Holy Spirit who is already at work within us.
Chambers clarifies that what often resists God’s will is not our new heart or reborn will, but the lingering patterns of sin—stubbornness, self-preservation, pride. These aren’t sourced in our will, which now originates from God Himself, but are remnants of the old life. The answer isn’t more self-effort. It’s Spirit-led obedience—what Chambers calls “the dynamite” that breaks through stubbornness.
As we obey the Spirit’s prompting, something beautiful happens: we find that our will is not opposed to God’s but is in harmony with Him, because He’s the One who placed that will within us to begin with. When we rest in Christ’s finished work and respond to the Spirit within us, obedience becomes as natural as breathing.
📓 Personalized Journal Entry – Voice of the Holy Spirit Through Scripture
I am not distant from you—I am within you. The same power that raised Christ from the dead now lives in you. I have not asked you to obey from a place of striving, but from a place of union. Your will, born again by My Spirit, is no longer at odds with Mine. I work in you both to will and to do according to My good purpose.
You were never meant to wrestle your way toward Me. You were created to respond—to yield, to trust, to follow My gentle promptings. The resistance you sense is not from the new you, but from the patterns of the flesh that once claimed your loyalty. Those patterns cannot be managed—they must be rendered powerless through obedience. As you respond to Me, they fall away like brittle chains broken by truth.
Do not be discouraged when you see your weakness. Rejoice instead that your will is alive with Mine. I do not bypass your will—I enliven it. I quicken it. I fill it with desire for what pleases Me. I am not asking you to create this desire, only to express it. Walk in the Spirit, and the fruit will come. The struggle turns to surrender, the burden becomes light, and obedience flows from the life we share.
Let your steps echo the life within you. You are Mine—and I am the One working in you, even now.
Scriptures referenced: Philippians 2:12–13; Romans 8:11; Galatians 5:16–25; John 15:5; Ezekiel 36:26–27
🧨 Real-Life Analogy
It’s like holding a rechargeable flashlight. Once it's charged, it doesn’t have to work harder to shine—it simply needs to be switched on. The power is already inside; the only action required is yielding to the design it was made for.
🙏🏼 Prayer of Confidence
Father, thank You that my will is no longer a battleground, but a reflection of Your life within me. I trust that You are the source of my desire to obey and the One who empowers my every step. I don’t have to wrestle for alignment—I simply yield to the Spirit who lives in me. Today, I rejoice that obedience isn’t something I must force, but something You bring forth through me as I rest in Christ. Thank You that Your will is already alive in me.