Christian Duties | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 19, 1872

Christian Duties.

THERE is a transforming power which changes what appear to be crosses into the highest Christian privileges, the moment we approach them in the spirit of cheerful obedience; and I almost feel that that word cross should be forgotten in the pleasure derived from following Christ in his commandments and ordinances. Our shadow will never frighten us so long as we keep our faces toward the sun; and so the shadows of what we call crosses will not trouble us if we keep our faces to the Sun of Righteousness in the spirit of alert obedience.

Suppose, now, we were to carry the same cheerful alacrity into all the departments of Christian life and service—how would the whole atmosphere of our being be changed from darkness to the very sunshine of the divine presence.

We sometimes contemplate important duties with fear and dread; and as we hesitate, the “cross,” or, more properly, reluctance to undertake it, becomes the shadow of a giant to torment us, until we are completely unmanned.