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Every impulse of the Holy Spirit leading men to goodness and to
God is noted in the books of heaven, and in the day of God everyone
who has given himself as an instrument for the Holy Spirit’s working
will be permitted to behold what his life has wrought.
The poor widow who cast her two mites into the Lord’s treasury
little knew what she was doing. Her example of self-sacrifice has acted
and reacted upon thousands of hearts in every land and in every age.
It has brought to the treasury of God gifts from the high and the low,
the rich and the poor. It has helped to sustain missions, to establish
hospitals, to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, and
preach the gospel to the poor. Multitudes have been blessed through
her unselfish deed. And the outworking of all these lines of influence
she, in the day of God, will be permitted to see. So with Mary’s
precious gift to the Saviour. How many have been inspired to loving
service by the memory of that broken alabaster box! And how she will
rejoice as she beholds all this!
Wonderful will be the revealing as the lines of holy influence, with
their precious results, are brought to view. What will be the gratitude
of souls that will meet us in the heavenly courts as they understand the
sympathetic, loving interest which has been taken in their salvation!
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All praise, honor, and glory will be given to God and to the Lamb for
our redemption; but it will not detract from the glory of God to express
gratitude to the instrumentality He has employed in the salvation of
souls ready to perish.
The redeemed will meet and recognize those whose attention they
have directed to the uplifted Saviour. What blessed converse they have
with these souls! “I was a sinner,” it will be said, “without God and
without hope in the world, and you came to me, and drew my attention
to the precious Saviour as my only hope. And I believed in Him. I
repented of my sins, and was made to sit together with His saints in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” Others will say: “I was a heathen in
heathen lands. You left your friends and comfortable home, and came
to teach me how to find Jesus and believe in Him as the only true God.
I demolished my idols and worshiped God, and now I see Him face to
face. I am saved, eternally saved, ever to behold Him whom I love. I
then saw Him only with the eye of faith, but now I see Him as He is. I
can now express my gratitude for His redeeming mercy to Him who
loved me and washed me from my sins in His own blood.”