HE IS COMING | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 22, 1900

HE IS COMING.

The King's Messenger.

The coming kingdom is nearing, the coming King is coming, while the Comforter has come, and all appliances of every kind are to be used to the hastening of the coming of the kingdom—and of the King. We live in these times. We face the future, we stand not in dreamland, but awake, and endued with power from on high. We are the temples of the indwelling Holy Ghost. We are the inheritors of all past development. We are responsible for present conditions, and are to be the actors of the glorious future.

The Executive of the Godhead has had us in training for these times, and we stand ready to do his bidding. What we need is “understanding of the times.” Temptations to indolence, half-heartedness, and indifference will be ours. Fears of overdoing, of fanaticism, of loss of place in church, or business, or community will confront us; difficulties, dangers, and disappointments will make themselves sorely and sadly felt; but his grace is sufficient, and his strength is made perfect in our weakness.

We lack wisdom, but he will give; we need sound minds, clean hearts, and consecrated powers. We need tact, and intelligence, and enthusiasm; we must have emotion, and that ardent; we require strength and courage and continuity; but above and beyond all we must have the endowment of power that comes when the Holy Ghost comes upon us. He and he only, through us, can meet the exigencies, the wants, and demands of the times.

The times require the Holy Spirit, and the times are his times, and in these times his need is for us to measure up, and not be of double heart or of wavering mind; but wholly given up to him to do his work, and ready to go anywhere, to run on any errand at his bidding. The times, and the people of the times, are his. His is the work, and his is the power and the glory. Amen.