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The Need of the Spirit

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Feb 1, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 5.

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The Need of the Spirit

By O. L. STILLMAN

O. L. STILLMAN
NEVER was there a time when the Holy Spirit was as much needed as at the present time. But God's tender love is with us, and has been through the ages past. A deeper and wider experience in religious things is to come to God's people. Christ is our example. It is always safe to be meek and lowly and tender-hearted, but at the same time we are to stand firm as a rock for the teachings of Christ.
Christ tells us to pray always. It is necessary for him to pray all night, how is it with us weak mortals of earth, who pray so little? Seventh-day Adventists have a strong battle to fight with Satan and all the allied hosts of evil. He will plan in every way to lead God's people astray. The harder we try to live close to God, the more determinedly Satan will endeavor to deceive us.
The Holy Spirit, our promised comforter, our guide into all truth, awaits our reception now. We can not afford to travel this journey without him. We should pray earnestly for the gift of that Comforter, and hold ourselves in glad willingness to follow where he leads.