The Lord's Work by Raymond Franklin Cottrell

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 22, 1885

The Lord's Work.

By Raymond Franklin Cottrell

THE work in which we are engaged is the Lord's work; and he is excellent in working. He never makes mistakes; but will carry forward his work to a glorious termination.

To be a co-worker with God is the highest privilege we can enjoy in our present state. We cannot be qualified for this without true humility. Human instrumentality at the best is imperfect and liable to err; but the Master is able to use fallible humanity as an instrument, and yet infallibly succeed in his perfect work.

No work of God, during all time, was ever greater or more important than that which he is now doing. It is the finishing of the "mystery of God," the closing of the great work of saving sinners, the sealing of his servants, the ripening of the harvest of the earth.

Let all who profess to accept this work as of God, beware of the Angel who is the true, though unseen, leader in the work. Let it be our highest ambition to humble ourselves, and so have a part in this work. "All the proud" are the subjects of God's wrath; and are not they proud who intend to take an independent course, out of harmony with, and not subject to, the body? God calls us to unity. Shall we not renounce self, in order to attain to that state of unity in which all the translated will be found? R. F. COTTRELL.