The Christian Life by Jos. Clarke

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 11, 1875

The Christian Life.

By Jos. Clarke

WHENEVER the Christian thinks within himself, now I will do something grand and noble, he does very little if anything at all; but when he gets very humble and feels that God alone can make him of any use in the work, that he is very little and despised, then he does his work as it should be done, and God approves his efforts.

When enemies arise, and the Christian says to himself, now will I avenge myself of these people, I will show them what I can do, then he gets badly routed and defeated; but when he says, let them curse, the Lord has bidden them curse; I deserve trouble and sorrow for my dulness in the work, and for my neglect; I will repent and call upon God and place my cause in his hands, then he conquers and triumphs in the Lord.

Whenever the Christian says, I cannot give so much time and money to the cause, it is ruining me; then he begins to grow poor; but when he says, all I have is the Lord's, it is all at his disposal, I will give in all my tithes and offerings, old arrears, as well as present dues, from that time he begins to grow rich. So it is. The carnal and the spiritual are contrary to each other, and must be weighed in scales which Heaven only furnishes and endorses.

Jos. CLARKE.