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The Key to Courage

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 18, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 3.

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The Key to Courage

EVERY man's business is God's business. If not, what have we children of God to do with it? Christ has taught us that we are to seek enlargement in our work. If expansion is impossible without, at least we may deepen and enlarge within. We may transfigure drudgeries by the sense of God's presence, transform motives by experience of love, put ourselves in the spirit of witness, even though we find no opportunity of speech. Once we have given ourselves to do the will of God, we have a right to reckon on subsidies of strength and joy out of his hidden treasures.
“What of our failures, then?” May they not be failures of our will, not tokens of God's reluctance? The key to courage is to seek God's kingdom first. Our success is in the venturing of faith, not the attainment of a particular desire. The father of the faithful owned no more of the promised land than a grave. The lawgiver of Israel died upon the journey. The most influential life ended upon the cross. Let God judge of failure and success; it is for us to venture, confident in his reserves of power.—The Congregationalist.