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Workers with God
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Advancing the Truth
Men make the work of advancing the truth tenfold harder than
it really is by seeking to take God’s work out of His hands into
their own finite hands. They think that they must be constantly
inventing something to make men do things which they suppose
these persons ought to do. The time thus spent is all the while
making the work more complicated, for the great chief Worker is left
out of the question in the care of His own heritage. Men undertake
the job of tinkering up the defective character of others, and only
succeed in making the defects much worse. They would better leave
God to do His own work, for He does not regard them as capable of
reshaping character.
What they need is to be imbued with the spirit of Christ. If they
take hold of His strength, they will make peace with Him; then they
will be in a fair way to make peace with their fellow laborers. The
less of the meekness and lowliness of Christ the human agent has
in his spirit and character, the more he sees perfection in his own
methods and imperfection in the methods of others. Our only safety
is to watch unto prayer, and to counsel together, believing that God
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will keep our brethren as well as ourselves, for there is no respect
of persons with Him. God will work for us when we are faithful
students and the doers of His words.
But when there is, on the part of the laborers, so manifest a
disregard of Christ’s express command that we love one another
as He has loved us, how can we expect that brethren will heed
the commandments of finite men, and the regulations and definite
specifications as to how each shall labor? The wisdom that prescribes
for us must be supernatural, else it will prove a physician that cannot
heal, but will only destroy. We would better seek God with the whole
heart, and lay down self-importance; for “all ye are brethren.”
Christ Has Made the Yoke Easy
Instead of toiling to prepare set rules and regulations, you might
better be praying and submitting your own will and ways to Christ.
He is not pleased when you make hard the things He has made easy.
He says: “Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek
and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My