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Let Us Ask of God, March 1
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men
liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
James 1:5
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It is the privilege of every believer first to talk with God in his closet,
and then as God’s mouthpiece to talk with others. In order that we may
have something to impart, we must daily receive light and blessing. Men
and women who commune with God, who have an abiding Christ, who,
because they cooperate with holy angels, are surrounded with holy influ-
ences, are needed at this time. The cause needs those who have power to
draw with Christ, power to express the love of God in words of encour-
agement and sympathy.
As the believer bows in supplication before God, and in humility and
contrition offers his petition from unfeigned lips, he loses all thought of
self. His mind is filled with the thought of what he must have in order to
build up a Christlike character. He prays, “Lord, if I am to be a channel
through which Thy love is to flow day by day and hour by hour, I claim by
faith the grace and power that Thou hast promised.” He fastens his hold
firmly on the promise, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, ...
and it shall be given him.”
How this dependence pleases the Master! How He delights to hear
the steady, earnest pleading! ... With wonderful and ennobling grace the
Lord sanctifies the humble petitioner, giving him power to perform the
most difficult duties. All that is undertaken is done unto the Lord, and
this elevates and sanctifies the lowliest calling. It invests with new dignity
every word, every act, and links the humblest worker ... with the highest
of the angels in the heavenly courts....
The sons and daughters of God have a great work to do in the world.
They are to accept the Word of God as the man of their counsel and to
impart it to others. They are to diffuse light. All who have received
the engrafted word will be faithful in giving that word to others. They
will speak the words of Christ. In conversation and in deportment they
will give evidence of a daily conversion to the principles of truth. Such
believers will be a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men, and God
will be glorified in them.
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