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Let God’s Spirit Do the Fashioning, September 29
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin:
but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and
your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Romans 6:13
.
The Lord desires His chosen servants to learn how to blend together. A decided
influence for good is to be brought to bear on the inhabitants of the world. However
diverse the talents of His workers, these workers are to labor in unity, all revealing
kindness and love. By different gifts the truth is to be proclaimed, all the gifts
controlled by the same Spirit....
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest” (
Matthew 11:28
). This is a prescription for the healing of all spiritual, mental,
and physical ills. It is Christ’s gift to those who seek Him in sincerity and truth.
He is the Mighty Healer. Then comes another invitation. “Take my yoke upon
you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto
your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (
Verses 29, 30
). Wearing
Christ’s yoke, and learning of Him the lesson of meekness and lowliness, we find
rest in faith and confidence and trust. We find that Christ’s yoke is easy and His
burden light.
Let those who bear responsibilities remember that it is the Holy Spirit who
is to do the fashioning. It is the Lord who controls. We are not to try to mold
according to our own ideas those for whom we work. We are to let Christ do the
molding. He follows no human pattern. He works according to His own mind and
spirit.
It is man’s work to reveal to the world that which Christ has placed in his heart.
Through His grace man becomes a partaker of the divine nature, having escaped
the corruption that is in the world through lust. The higher powers of the one who
receives Christ are strengthened and ennobled. He receives a fitness for God’s
service....
He who was once the covering cherub, whose work it was to hide from the
heavenly intelligences the glory of God, perverted his intellect, and divorced
himself from God. If a being so exalted could fall so low as to become the author
of sin, let not man boast, but learn to wear gracefully the yoke of Christ, revealing
His meekness and lowliness, believing on Him, cooperating with Him. “Ye are
bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which
are God’s” (
1 Corinthians 6:20
).—
Letter 197, September 29, 1901
, to Elder and
Mrs. S. N. Haskell.
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