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increasing in usefulness, because we see our work in the light of
eternity.
Our work has been marked out for us by our heavenly Father.
We are to take our Bibles and go forth to warn the world. We are to
be God’s helping hands in saving souls—channels through which
His love is day by day to flow to the perishing. The realization of
the great work in which he has the privilege of taking part, ennobles
and sanctifies the true worker. He is filled with the faith that works
by love and purifies the soul. Nothing is drudgery to the one who
submits to the will of God. Doing it unto the Lord” is a thought that
throws a charm over whatever work God gives him to do.
Carry on all your work on strictly religious principles. Let your
earnest inquiry be: What can I do to please the Master?” Visit places
where the believers need encouragement and help. At every step
ask: Is this the way of the Lord? Am I, in spirit, in word, in action,
in harmony with His will?” If you labor for God with an eye single
to His glory, your work will bear the divine mold, and you will be
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carrying out the Lord’s purposes.
In your study of the word of God, penetrate deeper and still
deeper beneath the surface. Lay hold by faith on divine power and
sound the depths of inspiration. Bring into your ministry the power
of God, remembering that the Lord is behind you. Let His love shine
through all you do and say. Let the truth, the precious, simple truth
of the word of God, shine out in full brightness. Humble self before
God. Christ will be your efficiency. He has appointed you as rulers
over His household, to give meat in due season. Christ’s laborers
are very near His heart of love. He desires to perfect His household
through the perfection of His ministers.
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Christ is the sympathetic, compassionate Redeemer. In His
sustaining power, men and women become strong to resist evil.
As the convicted sinner looks at sin, it becomes to him exceeding
sinful. He wonders that he did not come to Christ before. He sees
that his faults must be overcome and that his appetites and passions
must be subjected to God’s will, that he must be a partaker of the
divine nature, having overcome the corruption that is in the world