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The Joy of Service for Christ, August 30
He which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
2 Corinthians 9:6
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Ministry means service, and to this ministry we are all called. It is a dishonor
to God for anyone to choose a life of self-pleasing. My brethren and sisters, do
you realize that every year thousands and thousands of souls are perishing, dying
in their sins because the light of truth has not been flashed upon their pathway?...
There is a great work to be done in our world. Men and women are to be
converted, not by the gift of tongues nor by the working of miracles, but by the
preaching of Christ crucified. Why delay the effort to make the world better? Why
wait for some wonderful thing to be done, some costly apparatus to be provided?
However humble your sphere, however lowly your work, if you labor in harmony
with the teachings of the Saviour, He will reveal Himself through you, and your
influence will draw souls to Him. He will honor the meek and lowly ones, who
seek earnestly to do service for Him. Into all that we do, whether our work be in
the shop, on the farm, or in the office, we are to bring the endeavor to save souls.
We are to sow beside all waters, keeping our souls in the love of God, working
while it is day, using the means entrusted to us in the Master’s service. Whatever
our hands find to do, we are to do it with cheerfulness; whatever sacrifice we are
called upon to make, we are to make it cheerfully. As we sow beside all waters,
we shall realize the truth of the words, “He which soweth bountifully shall reap
also bountifully.”
We owe everything to grace, sovereign grace. Grace ordained our redemption,
our regeneration, and our adoption to heirship with Jesus Christ. Let this grace be
revealed to others.
The Saviour takes those whom He finds will be molded, and uses them for
His own name’s glory. He uses material that others would pass by, and works
in all who will give themselves to Him. He delights to take apparently hopeless
material, those whom Satan has debased, and through whom he has worked, and
make them the subjects of His grace. He rejoices to deliver them from suffering,
and from the wrath that is to fall upon the disobedient. He makes His children His
agents in the accomplishment of this work, and in its success, even in this life,
they find a precious reward.
But what is this compared with the joy that will be theirs in the great day of
final revealing?—
The Review and Herald, January 5, 1905
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