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Whole-Hearted Service of God

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 20, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 34.

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Whole-Hearted Service of God

CONSIDERED in the abstract, it would seem to be the most natural thing in the world for one to give himself unreservedly to the whole-hearted service of God. For all that we are, and all that we have, we are indebted to God, who “giveth to all life, and breath, and all things.” He has made the one supreme gift for us, the “unspeakable gift,” in providing the sacrifice for sin in the person of his only begotten Son, and with him he has freely given us all things. How mysterious, how deceptive, how unaccountable, is the power of evil, which blinds the mind, and hardens the heart, and turns us away from such a God and Father! How cruel is the bondage in which Satan holds his captives! “That which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that I do. . . . O wretched man that I am!” There must be a set purpose, a determination of the mind to serve God. There must be the daily choice, and the constant staying of the mind upon God. The service of God must be made the first and the chief business. God will co-operate with this purpose, and enable us to realize our choice. Thus will the abstract theory become concrete fact.