Learn of Me by F. W. Morse

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 2, 1909

“Learn of Me”

By F. W. Morse

F. W. MORSE

It is indeed quite wonderful how much we have to unlearn when we come into the school of Christ. It is also remarkable what slow progress some of the most eminent of God’s servants have made in putting away the unprofitable things they have had to unlearn to become men of God, to hold forth the light to others.

We sometimes become too zealous to have the Lord’s work move faster, and are quite impatient that some who have had the truth for the present time set before them fully, do not embrace it at once. But let us remember things of the past in God’s great work, and remember that Christ is the Great Teacher, and we must not seek to outrun our Leader. Luther declares of himself and the great work given him to do: “I must root up stock and stem, clear away thorns and brambles, fill up swamps and sloughs. I am like the sturdy wood-cutter, who must clear and level the road.”—“History of the Great Reformation, D’Aubigné, page 145.” While a great pioneer in reform, yet Luther was slow to learn. He did not search out something new and surprise the world by his rapid progress in divine things. We can see the same in looking through the career of other eminent reformers. We need carefully to avoid the driving, Jehu spirit in all our intercourse with the world, and with one another. The Lord can do more in one hour to water the plants than we can do in a lifetime, and do it much better. Yet it is not suitable that we be asleep and cast off all care and responsibility. We all have a work to do, a message to give, if indeed we do belong to the school of Christ. So then let us not lose courage because of our slow progress; but keep humbly, patiently moving on, and keep close to our Great Leader.

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