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Here we have faith in happy and thorough passivity. Man is silent - he has no place - God is supreme - He exalteth Himself. And is not this the very highest and most honourable phase of faith? Does it not hereby bring more glory to God, since it allows Him entire and perfect control: allows Him to act for Himself, and to have His own way? Let us but call to memory the words of our Lord Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, "Not my will, but Thine, be done." What passivity! What setting aside of a will, which, though real, was ever in harmony with that of the Father. The Father's will was to be supreme, though at such a cost to Him who surrendered His own. Ah! what a perfect example of being thus, still, we have in Jesus.