YIELDED THINGS by J. S. R.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 24, 1900

YIELDED THINGS.

By J. S. R.

God can take “a worm to thrash a mountain” with; “The things that are not,” he can use “To bring to naught the things that are;” And wert thou small enough, he might find use for thee; Or wert thou but a cipher, “the things that are” might cease to be.

God can take “one pot of oil,” and many vessels fill; Or he can make “the widow’s mite” Outweigh the pompous rich man’s gold; And if you had God’s “pot of oil,” more vessels he might fill; Or if you gave your tiny “mite,” some heathen heart might sooner know his will.

You may be that “worm” with which God smites the hills; Or you may be that thing of “naught,” Through which his Spirit works To raze the devil’s monuments, and haste the coming of God’s Son, “Whose right it is to reign” upon this earth as “his anointed” One.

Or you may have God’s “pot of oil” within your breast to-day, And “vessels not a few” he’ll fill By his own Spirit’s power; Through you he’ll pour omnipotence, if you’ll but yielded be, And still enough and low enough you lie, and “only Jesus” see.

It is “a worm” God wants, or one that “naught” will be; “The widow’s mite” is all he needs, If that wee “mite” be “all;” And through these tiny “yielded things,” God moves the hearts of men, Till Christ becomes their “all in all,” and reigns supreme within.

— J. S. R., in King’s Messenger.