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God Is in Every Place, July 12
Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write: These things saith he that
holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the
seven golden candlesticks; I know thy works.
Revelation 2:1, 2
.
These words fall from the lips of One who cannot lie. The picture reveals
eternal vigilance. Christ is in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, walking
from church to church, from congregation to congregation, from heart to heart.
He that keepeth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. If the candlesticks were left to
the care of human agents, how often the light would flicker and go out. But God
has not given His church into the hands of men. Christ, the One who gave His life
for the world, that all who believe in Him may not perish, but have everlasting
life, is the true Watchman of the house. He is the Warder, faithful and true, of the
temple-courts of the Lord. We have reason to thank God that we are not dependent
on the presence of earthly priest or minister. We are kept by the power of God.
The presence and grace of Christ is the secret of all life and light....
A holy Watcher notes every work and action of our lives, and weighs every
motive that prompts to action. The hand that traced the characters on the wall of
Belshazzar’s palace is everywhere writing, “God is here.” God is in every place.
All our words, all our plans, all our secret motives, are weighed in the balances of
infinite justice and truth.
Shall the compassionate, self-sacrificing Saviour find us wanting in tenderness,
love, sympathy for those for whom He gave His life? God has granted us gracious
opportunities for service. He has provided us with precious talents, and we are
answerable to Him for the use we make of them. If we use them wisely, God will
call us laborers together with Him. If we cleanse ourselves from every impure,
selfish principle, we shall one day hear the benediction, “Well done, thou good
and faithful servant” (
Matthew 25:21
).
Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Hannah, the mother of Samuel, said,
“The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed” (
1 Samuel 2:3
).
David says, “Men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be
laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity” (
Psalm 62:9
). Isaiah
declares, “Thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just” (
Isaiah 26:7
). And
Solomon writes, “All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord
weigheth the spirit” (
Proverbs 16:2
).
There is not a motive in the heart that the Lord does not read. He reads every
purpose, every thought.—
Manuscript 99, July 12, 1902
, “A Holy People.”
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