p. 500 | AT THE FEET OF JESUS by Theo. L. Cuyler

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 11, 1880

AT THE FEET OF JESUS.

By Theo. L. Cuyler

THERE are a great many times in our lives when our "strength is to sit still." Motion is good in its time, but so is meditation, so is quiet study, so is a patient waiting on God. If a bucket is to be filled from a spout of water, the best place for that bucket is to keep it under the stream until it is full. We soon run empty of grace, and need replenishing, and need to be filled unto all the fullness of God.

The cry of the hour is for more work. But genuine work consumes strength. The most laborious farmer must halt his team occasionally at the plough and rest: he must go in from the hot harvest-field and sit down at his table and refresh his weary frame. An army is never in so good trim for service in battle as after a sound sleep and a morning meal. So every servant of Jesus must often recruit his spiritual strength by sitting down at his Master's feet, in prayer, in meditation, in reading Christ's words and thinking about them. The disciples were not losing time when they sat down beside their Master and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times. The healthiest Christian, the one who is best fitted for godly living and godly labors, is he who feeds most on Christ. Here lies the benefit of Bible-reading, and of secret prayer.—Theo. L. Cuyler