The Need of Power

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

The Need of Power

It is power we need. Our work for Christ is too great for human strength. Our adversaries are strong. The world, this present evil world, how dominant, how enthralling! The flesh, human nature with its desires, tastes, and tendencies altogether against God and righteousness! And the enemy, who can measure his skill, his resources, his grip on the hearts of men? Against such odds how helpless are our reasonings, organizations, and endeavor. We must have power, divine power, or fail.

And it is the power of the Holy Ghost. It is not culture, wisdom, wealth, nor earthly influence. All these can create organized results, but cannot bring spiritual life. Only God can do His own work, and until we realize this, He will let us stumble on and call that success which is only man’s untempered mortar. This is preeminently true of our work in the last days. In and of ourselves we are nothing. We have known something of His power in the past, but He has much more for us. Let us not take less than the whole armor of God. Pray, brethren, pray!—Selected.