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One of the most striking pieces of Jesus life is that He asked the Father for something that he didn't receive. Isn't there another way? Is there no less costly or less painful way to redeem mankind? If our Lord had to learn how to lay down his own will and accept another will, the will of the Father, then surely it is one of the main lessons we have to learn. Foster says that in the beginning our will is in struggle with God's will. We beg. We pout. We demand. We expect God to perform like a magician or whower us with blessings like Father Christmas. By struggle and by futile attempts at manipulative prayers, we have to come through to a new attitude of dying to our own will that we might come alive to the will of God. Jesus teaches us about it in the prayer of relinquishment.