Chapter 118—Workers with God
For we are labourers together with God.
1 Corinthians 3:9
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God will honor and uphold every true-hearted, earnest soul who is seeking
to walk before Him in the perfection of Christ’s grace. He will never leave
nor forsake one humble, trembling soul. Shall we believe that He will work
in our hearts? that if we allow Him to do so, He will make us pure and holy,
by His rich grace qualifying us to be laborers together with Him? Can we
with keen, sanctified perception appreciate the strength of His promises, and
appropriate them, not because we are worthy, but because by living faith we
claim the righteousness of Christ?
In giving light to His people anciently, God did not work exclusively
through any one class. Daniel was a prince of Judah. Isaiah also was of
the royal line. David was a shepherd boy, Amos a herdsman, Zechariah a
captive from Babylon, Elisha a tiller of the soil. The Lord raised up as His
representatives prophets and princes, the noble and the lowly, and taught
them the truths to be given to the world. To every one who becomes a
partaker of His grace, the Lord appoints a work for others....
Let all cultivate their physical and mental powers to the utmost of their
ability, that they may work for God where His providence shall call them.
The same grace that came from Christ to Paul and Apollos, that distinguished
them for spiritual excellencies, will today be imparted to devoted Christian
missionaries. God desires His children to have intelligence and knowledge,
that with unmistakable clearness and power His glory may be revealed in our
world....
Men deficient in school education, lowly in social position, have, through
the grace of Christ, sometimes been wonderfully successful in winning souls
for Him. The secret of their success was their confidence in God. They
learned daily of Him who is wonderful in counsel and mighty in power.
Everyone in whose heart Christ abides, everyone who will show forth His
love to the world, is a worker together with God for the blessing of humanity.
As he receives from the Saviour grace to impart to others, from his whole
being flows forth the tide of spiritual life.
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