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An Ever Present Help, July 19
The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth
them that trust in him.
Nahum 1:7
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We have rich promises in the Word of God, if we only believe and trust
in Him. We are in danger of trusting to our own poor human efforts, and
not putting our trust in God. Everyone who has any part to act in this great
preparation of the work of God for these last days should come close to God.
When God sends out His workers to do a special errand for Him, He has
pledged Himself to be one with them, if they will be one with God. But if
they draw apart from God, and try to do this work in their own strength, they
will find difficulties and discouragements at every step. Here we have the
promise that in working for the Lord He is by our right hand to help us and
work with us.
It would be the greatest folly in the world for any of us to take any of
the credit to ourselves for any success we may have. The more humbly we
walk with God, the more will He manifest Himself to us to help us. The Lord
never designed to send out His servants to do a work for Him with all the
opposition of Satan and evil angels against them unless He gives them divine
help. The reason that we do not have greater success in the work is because
we depend on our own efforts rather than upon the help God will give us. It
is our privilege to feel our weakness, our unworthiness, and then claim the
help that God has provided for us. We can take the Word in our distress, and
while we feel the burden of souls upon us, and say, “Here, Lord, Thou hast
promised, and I believe Thy word.”
We must learn to go to our heavenly Father just as a child goes to its
earthly parents. He says, “Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask
bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how
much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them
that ask him?” (
Matthew 7:9-11
)....
While every one of God’s workmen should cultivate his powers to the
best of his ability, yet he should not trust in these powers. Make of yourselves
everything that it is possible for you to make and then trust the rest to God.—
Manuscript 8, July 19, 1886
, “Overcoming Self.”
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