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very angels who shouted for joy over the creation of our world and its
sinless inhabitants, the angels who witnessed the fall of man and his
expulsion from his Eden home..these very heavenly messengers are
most intensely interested to work in union with the fallen, redeemed
race for the salvation of human beings perishing in their sins.
Human agencies are the hands of heavenly instrumentalities, for
heavenly angels employ human hands in practical ministry. Human
agencies as hand helpers are to work out the knowledge and use the
facilities of heavenly beings. By uniting with these powers that are
omnipotent, we are benefited by their higher education and experi-
ence. Thus as we become partakers of the divine nature, and separate
selfishness from our lives, special talents for helping one another are
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granted us. This is heaven’s way of administering saving power.
Is there not something stimulating and inspiring in this thought,
that the human agent stands as the visible instrument to confer the
blessings of angelic agencies? As we are thus laborers together with
God, the work bears the inscription of the divine. The knowledge and
activity of the heavenly workers, united with the knowledge and power
that are imparted to human agencies, bring relief to the oppressed and
distressed. Our acts of unselfish ministry make us partakers in the
success that results from the relief offered.
With what joy heaven looks upon these blended influences! All
heaven is watching those agencies that are as the hand to work out
the purpose of God in the earth, thus doing the will of God in heaven.
Such co-operation accomplishes a work that brings honor and glory
and majesty to God. Oh, if all would love as Christ has loved, that
perishing men might be saved from ruin, what a change would come
to our world!
“I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people,
and they shall trust in the name of the Lord.... They shall feed and lie
down, and none shall make them afraid. Sing, O daughter of Zion;
shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of
Jerusalem. The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, He hath cast
out thine enemy: the King of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst of
thee: thou shalt not see evil any more. In that day it shall be said to
Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; He will save, He will
rejoice over thee with joy; He will rest in His love. He will joy over