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From Heaven With Love
Ordained for Sacred Work
Jesus gathered the little band close about Him, and kneeling in
the midst of them and laying His hands on their heads, offered a
prayer dedicating them to His sacred work.
As His representatives among men, Christ does not choose angels
who have never fallen, but human beings, of like passions with those
they seek to save. Christ took upon Himself humanity. It required
both the divine and the human to bring salvation to the world. So
with the servants and messengers of Christ. Humanity lays hold
on divine power, Christ dwells in the heart by faith; and through
cooperation with the divine, the power of man becomes efficient for
good.
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He who called the fishermen of Galilee is still calling men to His
service. However imperfect and sinful we may be, the Lord offers
us apprenticeship to Christ. Uniting with Him, we may work the
works of God.
“We have this treasure in earthen vessels, to show that the tran-
scendent power belongs to God and not to us.”
2 Corinthians 4:7
,
RSV. It is manifest that the power which works through the weak-
ness of humanity is the power of God. Thus we believe that the
power which can help others as weak as ourselves can help us.
Those who are themselves “compassed with infirmity” should
be able to “have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are
out of the way.”
Hebrews 5:2
. There are souls perplexed with doubt,
weak in faith, and unable to grasp the Unseen; but a friend whom
they can see, coming in Christ’s stead, can be a connecting link to
fasten their trembling faith on Christ.
Man must be the channel to communicate with man. And when
we give ourselves to Christ, angels rejoice that they may speak
through our voices to reveal God’s love.
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