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The Gracious Invitation, November 17
Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.
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Chronicles 16:11
.
Those who become children of God are under obligation to Him to do
all in their power to seek and to save the lost.... The gracious invitation
first given by Christ is to be taken up by human voices and sounded
throughout the world: “The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him
that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever
will, let him take the water of life freely” (
Revelation 22:17
). The church
is to say, Come. Every power in the church is to be actively engaged on
the side of truth. The followers of Christ are to combine in a strong effort
to call the attention of the world to the fast-fulfilling prophecies of the
Word of God.
Oh, how solemn and important is the work entrusted to us! How
far reaching this work is in its results! How are we to obtain strength
and wisdom necessary for its successful accomplishment? As Daniel
sought the Lord, so we are to seek Him. Daniel declares, “I set my face
unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and
sackcloth, and ashes” (
Daniel 9:3
). We are to seek the Lord in humility
and contrition, confessing our own sins and coming into close unity with
one another....
As surely as we seek the Lord earnestly, He will make the way plain
before us. All around us are doors open for service. Let us prayerfully
study the work to be done, and then enter upon it with full assurance of
faith. We are to labor in quietness and humility, in the meekness and
lowliness of Christ, realizing that there is a trying time before us and
that we shall always need heavenly grace in order to understand how
to deal with minds. It is the patient, humble, godlike worker who will
have something to show for his labors. As a people and as individuals
our success depends, not on numbers, on standing, nor on intellectual
attainments, but on walking and working with Christ.
It is time now to gather strength from the Source of all strength, to cry
aloud and spare not, to press back the clouds of darkness, that the light of
heaven may be revealed.
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