Basic HTML Version
Heavenly Dividends, January 23
Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be
displayed because of the truth.
Psalm 60:4
.
See that the truth is inscribed on your banner at all times and in all places....
As a nation the Jews refused to receive Christ. He had led them in their
travels, as their invisible, infinite Leader. He had communicated His will to
them, but in the test they rejected Him, their only hope, their only salvation,
and God rejected them. “But as many as received him, to them gave he
power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name”
(
John 1:12
). To all who receive and obey the conditions, God’s gifts flow
steadily, without repentance, without recall. God has imparted His gifts to
man to be used, not according to hereditary or fanciful ideas, not according
to natural impulses or inclination, but according to His will....
Those who feared God were to think for themselves. They were no longer
to leave other men to do their thinking. Their minds were no longer to be
chained down to erroneous maxims, theories, and doctrines. Ignorance and
vice, crime and violence, oppression in high places, must be unveiled. The
Light of life had come to this world to shine amid the moral darkness. The
gospel would now be proclaimed among the poor, the oppressed. Those in
humble life would be given opportunity to understand the real qualifications
necessary for entrance into the kingdom of God.
And today men from the lower ranks are to take their place in obeying
the command, “Go forward.” By faith they are to meet difficulties, not daring
to yield to the strife and babble of unbelieving tongues. They are to press
forward from one degree of success to another, praying always, and exercising
that faith which answers prayer....
The agencies of God are many! But all those who are willing to work
according to God’s plan are included in the words, “Ye are God’s husbandry,
ye are God’s building” (
1 Corinthians 3:9
). God’s servants are to move so
that no spiritual gift shall be lost. Their will is to be held in abeyance, and
when God’s time comes, the rod will blossom. What form the work will take
no one can know, but God’s servants are to be minutemen, able to understand
the ways and will of their Leader.—
Letter 8, January 23, 1899
, to Dr. J. H.
Kellogg, medical superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
[32]
28