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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 1, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 22.

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Together With God

By E. BOWEN

E. BOWEN
In our working for God in helping him, more often he is helping us. It may be that our work is helpful in bringing light and cheer to others, and still in all this God is working out his purpose to protect and rescue the two strangers who visited his city; but in fact, these angel guests protected and rescued him. We are “workers together” with God. He works with us. This is saying that if we desire really to get near the Lord, then we must go to work for some one in need. Here is where God and men meet, working “together.” What a precious privilege! With some persons it is a real joy to be associated in work. There is a companionship in it all that is very helpful. Little joys and sorrows are shared mutually. How much lighter seems the task if we but have a congenial companion in it! So in our spiritual work, Christ Jesus becomes our yokefellow, he working with us. “It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Phil. 2: 13.
How God works for us may be illustrated by the way a father sometimes works with and for his sons. It often occurs that a father enters a section of unimproved country. He purchases land, and begins to clear it. With him his sons labor as they develop into manhood. They have the benefits and privileges of the father's home, his counsel and instruction, sharing his labors in bringing the land under cultivation. During these years they think that they are working for father. And so it is counted. But time goes by. The father, as his strength wanes, turns the improved farm over to his sons; and they find, after all, that while they supposed they were working for father, in reality he was working for them.
Thus our Father in heaven is helping us in the spiritual realm to work out for ourselves an inheritance for the life to come. And in actual fact, our spiritual inheritance will be the giving back to the saints of this old, sin-cursed earth made over into an Eden home. The love of our Father above is as much greater than that of an earthly father as heaven is higher than the earth. Now is the time for us to share his presence and blessing, by becoming “workers together” with him.
Takoma Park, D. C.