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but one of the Lord’s appointed missionaries, in all your work placing
His service first. Let nothing mar your peace. Give your heart’s best
and holiest affections to Him who gave His life that you might be
among the redeemed family in the heavenly courts. Striving for the
crown of life will not make you dissatisfied or less useful. The Great
Teacher desires to acknowledge you as His helping hand. He calls
for your co-operation. Will you not now give Him all that you have
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and are? Will you not consecrate your talents to His service?
This life is your sowing time. Will you not pledge yourself to
God, that your seed sowing shall be that which will produce, not
tares, but a harvest of wheat? God will work with you; He will
increase your usefulness. He has entrusted to you talents that in His
strength you may use to produce a precious harvest.
To those who with steadfast perseverance strive to reveal the
attributes of Christ, angels are commissioned to give enlarged views
of His character and work, His power and grace and love. Thus
they become partakers of His nature, and day by day grow up to
the full stature of men and women in Christ. The sanctification of
the Spirit is seen in thought, word, and deed. Their ministry is life
and salvation to all with whom they associate. Of such ones it is
declared, “Ye are complete in Him.”
Colossians 2:10
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The physician’s example, no less than his teaching, should be a
positive power on the right side. The cause of reform calls for men
and women whose life practice is an illustration of self-control. It is
our practice of the principles we inculcate that gives them weight.
The world needs a practical demonstration of what the grace of
God can do in restoring to human beings their lost kingship, giving
them mastery of themselves. There is nothing that the world needs
so much as a knowledge of the gospel’s saving power revealed in
Christlike lives.—
The Ministry of Healing, 132, 133
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For Further Study
A Call for Gospel Medical Missionaries
The Desire of Ages, 821-828
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