POWER FROM ON HIGH by L. A. S.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 13, 1901

POWER FROM ON HIGH.

By L. A. S.

The people of God have not nearly as much power as they ought to have, or as the Lord wants them to have; and there is one simple reason why they do not have it. That reason is, they would not use it to the glory of God.

They have all the power now with which the Lord can trust them.

All power is of God. The Lord Jesus Christ has “all power . . . in heaven and in earth,” and because of this He has commissioned His servants to go everywhere and preach the kingdom of God. In the service of God, “all power” is not too much to be exercised by the weak human instrument; but in the service of self, all power would be infinitely

too much. “All power” to resist sin is only what the Omnipotent has provided us; but all power to serve sin would set sin upon the throne of God.

God will not make himself the servant of sin; therefore He cannot endue any person with power from on high while that individual is practicing sin. Yielding upon even one point to the power of sin, opens an avenue through which the devil has access to the heart, and through which he would have access to the power of God if that power had been given the individual. Then the power of God would be exercised under the direction of Satan, and God would be divided against himself.

It is useless to pray for more power while failing upon any known requirement of Christianity. The way to more power is through more consecration. The way to gain greater victories is by a more complete surrender. God has power enough, and He will not fail to bestow even omnipotent power upon you the moment He sees that you can be trusted with it.

L. A. S.