Blessing for the Isolated Ones
By W. A. S.
THERE is grace to supply every need. The isolated believer, who is cut off from association with others of like faith from Sabbath to Sabbath, may know that there is provision made so that he shall not be left behind in the experiences that are coming to the earnest seekers after God to fit the church for the final work of witnessing. The light comes from above; and heaven is as near to the isolated one as to any. The Testimony is:— While a new life is being diffused and is springing up from beneath, and taking fast hold of all Satan’s agencies, preparatory to the last great conflict and struggle, a new light and life and power is descending from on high, and taking possession of God’s people who are not dead, as many now are, in trespasses and sins. By his Word and Spirit we may expect to see the Lord leading the ranks of the faithful forward together throughout the wide world, keeping step with one another, even though widely separated. “Though sundered far, by faith we meet
Around one common mercy seat.” There is a common, progressive experience in the message, from season to season, even as the church on earth is to keep pace with the progress of Christ’s work in the sanctuary above. And it is instructive, as we come together in general meetings, to see how the Lord has been giving the same experiences to that many who have had no personal contact with one another. The Lord has ever worked thus. In the Reformation days, the reform sprang up simultaneously in parts widely distant. In the rise of the advent movement, in the days of the first angel’s message, men of God in various lands were moved upon at the same time to study and to proclaim the truth of the coming of the Lord. So also, in 1715, when the Lord was preparing the Moravians to enter upon their missionary enterprises, “a revival breath from heaven passed simultaneously over towns wholly disconnected and remote from one another, in Moravia and Bohemia.” Now all are to pray for the blessed experience of the latter rain, by which the ranks of believers, as ‘one mighty army, will be moved forward in the final work. Not one loyal soul will be left behind.