No Burden | AdventAI

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 6, 1907

“No Burden”

We meet people who complacently tell us by word and action that they have no burden for the needs of our various institutions, as if this settled the matter, and they should be excused. The fact that we have no burden should alarm us. If a starving man is at our door, and we have no burden for his pangs of hunger, it shows that we possess not the spirit of the Master. There may never be the need for another $150,000 fund. The Lord, true to his word, is “cutting short the work.” The remnant church of which we are members, calls loudly for means now, that the message may quickly go to the world, and that we may go to the home Jesus has prepared for us. Can it be that we have “no burden” to give! “No burden” to go home!

Truly the Laodicean message is due to this people now as never before. If we have no burden now when needs are so great, we shall have a burden of remorse when we come to offer our means too late. It is time that those of us with no burden should go to our closets and mightily cry to the Lord that we may get a burden. It may be the weight of money and business cares has so deadened some of us that we could not feel a burden if the Lord himself were throwing one upon us. Then let us get rid of our benumbing load, and we shall not “turn away sorrowful,” as the rich young ruler did whom Jesus admonished to sell all that he had, but will be joyful in the consciousness of obedience to our Lord’s command.