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Keep Streams of Beneficence in Constant Circulation, August 31
Do you not say, “There are still four months and then comes the harvest”?
Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are
already white for harvest!
John 4:35
, NKJV.
Human power did not establish the work of God, neither can human power
destroy it. To those who carry forward His work in face of difficulty and opposition,
God will give the constant guidance and guardianship of His holy angels. His
work on earth will never cease. The building of His spiritual temple will be carried
forward until it shall stand complete, and the headstone shall be brought forth with
shoutings: “Grace, grace unto it.”
Christians are to be a benefit to others. Thus they themselves are benefited. “He
that watereth shall be watered also himself” (
Proverbs 11:25
). This is a law of the
divine administration, a law by which God designs that the streams of beneficence
shall be kept, like the waters of the great deep, in constant circulation, perpetually
returning to their source. In the fulfilling of this law is the power of Christian
missions.
I have been instructed that wherever by self-sacrifice and urgent efforts facilities
for the establishment and advancement of the cause have been provided, and the
Lord has prospered the work, those in that place should give of their means to
help His servants who have been sent to new fields. Wherever the work has
been established on a good foundation, the believers should feel themselves under
obligation to help those in need by transferring, even at great sacrifice, a portion
or all of the means which in former years was invested in behalf of the work in
their locality. Thus the Lord designs that His work shall increase. This is the law of
restitution in right lines.—
Testimonies for the Church 7:170
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