Christ's Comforting Promise by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 11, 1913

Christ's Comforting Promise

By Editor

Editorial

Christ's Comforting Promise

To him who is in the line of Christian duty this most comforting promise of our Saviour applies in all its fulness: “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” We cannot expect the fulfilment of that promise to us if we are going contrary to his will, going where he has not told us to go, doing what he has not commissioned us to do.

That promise of the continual abiding presence of our Lord seems to be contingent upon giving heed to the command, or commission, that precedes it. Christ was a worker, a missionary, and his life was a life of self-sacrifice. In commanding his followers to go into all parts of the earth making known his truth and baptizing converts, he was only continuing through them the work he had himself begun, the work he counted worthy of his life of sacrifice, worthy of the price he paid on Calvary.

Because that is true, we never need fear that he will become indifferent to his work or his workers in any part of the world. His eye is upon each worker at home or abroad. In every discouraging circumstance he is there to give courage. When dangers surround, he is there. When human power seems waning, and human words powerless to convict, Jesus Christ is there by his Spirit to supply the needed power, to carry conviction to hearts, to uphold the worker by the comforts of his grace.

Too often we do not realize this. Previous success unconsciously leads one to depend too much on himself and too little on him who only can make our ministry a success. It is always true that he who realizes to the greatest extent his dependence upon Christ accomplishes the most for Christ; and he who trusts most in himself accomplishes least and becomes soonest discouraged. Man has no power in himself to wage successful warfare with the great deceiver. But he who is fully submitted to the will of Christ and is seeking to carry out his purpose has a power behind him, a defense around him, and a disperser of foes before him that is bound to insure his triumph. He who has Christ with him to the end of the world is certain to triumph over the world, the flesh, and the devil. It is a blessed fact, and a fact that ought to put heart into every sincere Christian. Let not Satan draw a veil between your eyes and that fact.

C. M. S.