God's Will

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. (Psalms 40:8—KJV)
Now here is a strange thing. I have told this story several times.
Many years ago while in Bible school I was told by my teachers that no one has ever done God's will. They added that the world was waiting for someone to do God's will perfectly.
Perhaps this was the result of lawless-grace teaching.
In any case, the implication was that to do God's will required the most excruciating contortions one could imagine; that the believer would be left as a scarecrow in a corn field that was not able even to scare away the crows because of its pitiable condition.
I became a Christian while serving in the United States Marine Corps. While stationed in Sasebo, Japan the Lord visited me in a special way and called me to preach the Gospel.
When I left the Marine Corps, some months after the conclusion of World War Two, I enrolled in a Bible school in San Diego California. Not having been raised in church I knew very little about how Christians felt about the Gospel.
I was zealous concerning my new-found faith. I was resolved to be an overcomer, although I don't believe my teachers were impressed with this. I guess they thought I would be like they once had been---ready to save the world. If we are not careful, life knocks the idealism out of us, doesn't it.
In any case I let it be known that I was going to do God's will perfectly. I should have kept my mouth shut and just talked to God about it.