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What Jesus won us to (to love God and others), He won us by (His love for God and others). Jesus was not a puppet. He surrendered to the Father and the pain of the cross because of His love.
We cannot die for and save ourselves, but we can surrender to Christ. Victory is the result of surrender. God is fully able to accomplish the good end He has in mind, and His goal is always good.
Jesus’ struggle was not to find the Father’s will but to continue in it. Our struggle might be to find the Father’s will, but it might also be to continue in the Father’s will.
If we don’t choose well in the small things we will not choose well in the large things. The unsurrendered will throws a fit.
Jesus discovered the Father’s will in the midst of the circumstances, and this is where we must find the Father’s will too. When a person is surrendered he is free to do what is right.