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VOLONTÉ

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Hébr., le plus directement : khéphets (Esa 44:28 46:10, etc.), qui renferme à la fois les notions d'inclination, d'intention favorables et de volonté effective ; grec : boulé, la volonté délibérante (Lu 7:30 23:51, Ac 13:36 etc.), et thélêma, la volonté déterminante et agissante (Mt 6:10, Lu 12:47, Jn 11:3, etc.). Les textes Lu 22:42 et Eph 1:11 marquent clairement la nuance importante qu'il y a entre ces deux termes du N.T.

La volonté est la faculté que l'homme possède de se déterminer et de faire concourir à un dessein toutes les énergies de son être, toutes les influences de son autorité. Les sources de la volonté sont dans le sentiment, dans l'intelligence et surtout dans la conscience. La volonté oriente la liberté, elle engage la responsabilité, elle crée la cohésion de la personnalité. Autant dire que la volonté est le principe constitutif du moi. C'est ce qu'a bien compris le bon sens populaire quand il dit de quelqu'un qui ne sait pas vouloir : « Ce n'est pas un homme. »

--L'homme ayant été créé à l'image de Dieu, qui est la personne parfaite, on peut poser comme postulat que Dieu est volonté, qu'il est la volonté parfaite, toute-puissante. C'est bien ainsi que la Bible nous le présente (Esa 46:10, Ps 33:11 103:21 135:6 2Ro 18:25 et suivant, 2Ch 22:7, Esd 7:18, Pr 19:21, Mt 18:14, Jn 3:8,1Co 12:11, Ro 1:10 15:32,1Co 4:19,1Pi 3:17, Jas 4:15 etc.).

Que sont donc la création, la loi du Sinaï, la rédemption du Christ, sinon le déploiement de cette volonté qui s'affirme pour notre bien jusque dans l'immolation : « Dieu a tellement aimé le monde qu'il a donné son Fils... » (Jn 3:16, Heb 10:10, cf. Lu 7:30) ? En quoi consiste la sainteté de Jésus ? en ce qu'il accomplit toujours et jusque sur la croix la volonté du Père céleste (Heb 10:9, Jn 8:29 10:18) ; et qu'est-ce que la rédemption proposée à tout homme ? un appel à sa volonté (Jn 5:6, Lu 19:14, Jn 5:40, Mt 23:37), une exhortation à conformer à travers toute sa vie, comme le fit Jésus en Gethsémané, sa volonté à la volonté de Dieu : « Non pas comme je veux, mais comme tu veux. »

En rapprochant Ge 2:17 3:6, on a le motif de la chute qui fit chasser l'homme du paradis : l'acte rapporté par Ge 3:6 équivaut à dire : « Non pas ce que tu veux, mais ce que je veux. » Mt 26:39, au contraire, nous donne la parole d'obéissance qui permit au Christ de devenir le Sauveur du monde et d'inaugurer une nouvelle humanité (Php 3:8 et suivant). A cette humanité née de son sacrifice il ne donne qu'une loi : la volonté de son Père qui est dans les cieux (Mt 6:10).

Autant il est vain que l'homme mette sa confiance dans sa volonté propre qui est charnelle, dévoyée, impuissante, asservie aux suggestions du Diable qui s'est vanté, non sans apparence de raison, de donner le royaume du monde à qui il veut (Lu 4:6, cf. Job 1, Mr 4:15, Lu 22:31, Mt 13:28,2Ti 2:26) ; comp, le titre de Prince de ce monde donné par Jésus à Satan dans Jn 12,14,16, autant son avenir est assuré s'il se laisse instruire par Jésus sur ce qu'est la volonté de Dieu (Jn 7:17, Lu 10:26 et suivants, Mr 10:17 et suivant, etc.).

Jésus accomplit lui-même cette volonté avec amour. (Jn 4:34 5:30 6:38) Il veut que ses disciples l'imitent (Mt 6:10 12:50, Jn 7:17 9:31). « Je me sanctifie moi-même pour eux » =je me consacre, « sanctifie-les » =consacre-les (Jn 17).

L'apôtre Paul s'est fondé sur l'enseignement de son Maître quand il a résumé la vie chrétienne dans une formule qui met en avant la volonté souveraine de Dieu tout en faisant appel à la volonté coopérante de l'homme : « Ce que Dieu veut, c'est votre sanctification » (1Th 4:3, Ac 21:14 ; cf. 1Th 5:18, Eph 6:6,1Pi 2:15 4:2, Ro 12:2, Col 1:9 ; voir encore 1Jn 2:17 5:14, Mt 7:21, Heb 13:21, etc.). Alex. W.

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