WHAT CAN I DO FOR JESUS

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 21, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 14.

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WHAT CAN I DO FOR JESUS.

Ought not every professed Christian to ask himself this question when he first awakens from sleep in the morning? “What can I do for Jesus to day?” Surely I think that those who profess to love Jesus, ought to ask themselves this question very often. One who has found Christ to be precious to his soul, has promised that he would labor for Christ. One who has found Christ “the one altogether lovely and chiefest among ten thousand,” did promise God that he would serve him through his dear Son.
My Christian friend, you have taken solemn vows upon yourself; you have promised Christ that you would take up your daily cross and follow him. You have professed to renounce the world and all its vanities. You profess to love God. In making this profession you have (as it were) donned the regular dress or uniform worn by Christ’s soldiers, you have enlisted under the royal banner of King Jesus. You have promised to fight for him and what question more appropriate can you ask than, “What can I do for Jesus?” Let the Christian ask himself this question daily, and if he truly feels from the depths of his heart that he would do something for Christ, let him go to God in earnest prayer, and ask God to guide him, and enable him to labor for Jesus.
Let him desire to labor for Christ, because he loves him, not merely to be praised of men, and God will hear and answer that prayer. You will be enabled to do something for the cause of Christ if you really and sincerely desire to. Are you willing and do you strive to labor for God? He will bless your efforts; you will feel blessed in your own heart, though you may not know the extent of good that you have done while in this life, yet in the “great Hereafter” you shall know. Then go to work my weak brother—my weak sister in Christ—think every hour, “What can I do for Jesus.” Go forward, and with a prayerful heart and whole-souled earnestness, try to do something for his cause. Though you may not do more than to bear a cup of cold water to one of his children, yet Christ has said, “you shall not lose your reward” for that simple act. Or you may perchance speak soothing words to one of his followers, or you may comfort the sick and minister unto their wants, and Christ says “Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these, ye did it unto me.” Blessed words; let us remember them, and let us often ask ourselves, “What can I do for Jesus?”