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Let Us Ask Of God, June 6
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men
liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
James 1:5
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It is the privilege of every believer first to talk with God in his closet, and then
as God’s mouthpiece to talk with others. In order that we may have something to
impart, we must daily receive light and blessing. Men and women who commune
with God, who have an abiding Christ, who, because they cooperate with holy
angels, are surrounded with holy influences, are needed at this time. The cause
needs those who have power to draw with Christ, power to express the love of
God in words of encouragement and sympathy.
As the believer bows in supplication before God, and in humility and contrition
offers his petition from unfeigned lips, he loses all thought of self. His mind is
filled with the thought of what he must have in order to build up a Christlike
character. He prays, “Lord, if I am to be a channel through which Thy love is to
flow day by day and hour by hour, I claim by faith the grace and power that Thou
hast promised.” He fastens his hold firmly on the promise, “If any of you lack
wisdom, let him ask of God, ... and it shall be given him.”
How this dependence pleases the Master! How He delights to hear the steady,
earnest pleading! ... With wonderful and ennobling grace the Lord sanctifies the
humble petitioner, giving him power to perform the most difficult duties. All that
is undertaken is done unto the Lord, and this elevates and sanctifies the lowliest
calling. It invests with new dignity every word, every act, and links the humblest
worker ... with the highest of the angels in the heavenly courts....
The sons and daughters of God have a great work to do in the world. They are
to accept the Word of God as the man of their counsel and to impart it to others.
They are to diffuse light. All who have received the engrafted word will be faithful
in giving that word to others. They will speak the words of Christ. In conversation
and in deportment they will give evidence of a daily conversion to the principles
of truth. Such believers will be a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men,
and God will be glorified in them.
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