Воля Божия

The Son came down from heaven not to do His own will, but the will of Him who sent it (John 6:38). If this had not been said by the one who descended himself, then we would answer that these words were uttered on behalf of a person, not what we mean in the Savior (His will, as completely deified, is not contrary to God), but similar to us, because the human will does not always follow, but very often contradicts and opposes the will of God. For this is how we understand the words: My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; however, not as I want, but may Your will prevail (Matthew 26:39); and it is incredible that Christ did not know what is possible and what is not, and that he began to oppose one will to another. But since this is the speech of the One who received (which means the word: descended), and not the one who was received, we will give the following answer: this is said not because the Son’s own will is really different from the will of the Father, but because there is no such will, and the meaning contained in the words is this: “Let me not do My will, because I have no will separate from Your will, but there is only a will common to both Me and You. Just as We have one Divinity, so we have one will.” For there are many such expressions that speak generally, not affirmatively, but negatively. For example: for God does not give the Spirit by measure (John 3:34), while neither God gives, nor the Spirit is unmeasurable, because God is not measured by God. And one more thing: not for my iniquity and not for my sin (Ps. 58:4), while we are not talking about actual sin, but about one that does not exist. Also: not trusting in our righteousness (Dan. 9:18), that is, because we have not created righteousness. The same thing is revealed from what follows. For what is called the will of the Father? - that everyone who believes in the Son will be saved and will be worthy of the final resurrection (John 6:40). Is this really the will of the Father, but not the will of the Son? Or is it not by the will of the Son that they preach the gospel about Him or believe in Him? But who will believe this? Otherwise, the same force has the fact that the word heard from the Son is not the word of the Son, but of the Father (see John 14:24). But no matter how I look, I can’t find it, and I don’t think anyone else will find it, no matter how the common property was the property of any one person. If you reason about the will in this way, then your reasoning will be correct and very pious, which I assure you of, and which every right-thinking person will confirm (1). You might be interested in: