“To Meet the Bridegroom”
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Read to them from the word of God. Upon many is a soul sickness
which no earthly balm can reach nor physician heal. Pray for these
souls, bring them to Jesus. Tell them that there is a balm in Gilead and
a Physician there.
Light is a blessing, a universal blessing, pouring forth its treasures
on a world unthankful, unholy, demoralized. So it is with the light
of the Sun of Righteousness. The whole earth, wrapped as it is in
the darkness of sin, and sorrow, and pain, is to be lighted with the
knowledge of God’s love. From no sect, rank, or class of people is the
light shining from heaven’s throne to be excluded.
The message of hope and mercy is to be carried to the ends of the
earth. Whosoever will, may reach forth and take hold of God’s strength
and make peace with Him, and he shall make peace. No longer are
the heathen to be wrapped in midnight darkness. The gloom is to
disappear before the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness. The
power of hell has been overcome.
But no man can impart that which he himself has not received. In
the work of God, humanity can originate nothing. No man can by
his own effort make himself a light bearer for God. It was the golden
oil emptied by the heavenly messengers into the golden tubes, to be
conducted from the golden bowl into the lamps of the sanctuary, that
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produced a continuous bright and shining light. It is the love of God
continually transferred to man that enables him to impart light. Into
the hearts of all who are united to God by faith the golden oil of love
flows freely, to shine out again in good works, in real, heartfelt service
for God.
In the great and measureless gift of the Holy Spirit are contained
all of heaven’s resources. It is not because of any restriction on the
part of God that the riches of His grace do not flow earthward to men.
If all were willing to receive, all would become filled with His Spirit.
It is the privilege of every soul to be a living channel through which
God can communicate to the world the treasures of His grace, the
unsearchable riches of Christ. There is nothing that Christ desires so
much as agents who will represent to the world His Spirit and character.
There is nothing that the world needs so much as the manifestation
through humanity of the Saviour’s love. All heaven is waiting for
channels through which can be poured the holy oil to be a joy and
blessing to human hearts.