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The Lord Our Leader

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 9, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 19.

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The Lord Our Leader

By N. W. VINCENT

N. W. VINCENT
JESUS is waiting to be our wisdom. What a precious gift is he! Always near to lead us into truth, to bring to our minds his words, to purify our hearts, to fit us to co-work with himself in saving souls from death.
Filled with his Spirit, we have perfect peace; a comfort in affliction, a joy infinitely more satisfactory than all other pleasures.
Led by our Saviour, we shall be watchful and prayerful, shunning both rashness and timidity. God will not lead us to speak harshly, cruelly, either to or against our associates bought by his divine sin-offering; neither will he uphold us in being ashamed to own himself, his truth, or his work. Let us love to follow Christ, to follow him without cowardice, without presumption, meekly, trustingly in his steps. May we delight to recall his words, his acts, his sufferings!
What a pure language was his! No profane or idle ejaculations, no slang, nothing impure! In his mouth was no guile. No gamblers' expressions, as, “I bet,” “I wager,” “you bet,” could be pleasing to him whose lips “as a fountain of righteousness flow to water, the garden of grace.”
In this life, our Lord leads us into “green pastures, beside still waters.” In the world to come he will lead us forth to “fountains of living waters” through the eternal ages. Glory to him who was given of the Father to be our Leader forever!
Caney, Kan.