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Greater Efficiency and Deeper Consecration Needed, August 30
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all
truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He
will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
John 16:13
, NKJV.
Every day that passes brings us nearer the end. Does it bring us also near to
God? Are we watching unto prayer? Those with whom we associate day by day
need our help, our guidance. They may be in such a condition of mind that a word
in season will be sent home by the Holy Spirit as a nail in a sure place. Tomorrow
some of these souls may be where we can never reach them again. What is our
influence over these fellow travelers? What effort do we make to win them to
Christ?
Time is short, and our forces must be organized to do a larger work. Laborers
are needed who comprehend the greatness of the work and who will engage in it,
not for the wages they receive, but from a realization of the nearness of the end.
The time demands greater efficiency and deeper consecration. Oh, I am so full of
this subject that I cry to God: “Raise up and send forth messengers filled with a
sense of their responsibility, messengers in whose hearts self-idolatry, which lies at
the foundation of all sin, has been crucified.” ...
Putting our trust in God, we are to move steadily forward, doing His work with
unselfishness, in humble dependence upon Him, committing ourselves and our
present and future to His wise providence, holding the beginning of our confidence
firm unto the end, remembering that it is not because of our worthiness that we
receive the blessings of heaven, but because of the worthiness of Christ, and our
acceptance, through faith in Him, of God’s abounding grace.—
Testimonies for the
Church 9:27-29
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