WALKING WITH GOD by C. E. Locke

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 19, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 41.

WALKING WITH GOD.

By C. E. Locke

WALK humbly with God! The possibility of companionship with the Infinite presses us into the dust. He that humbleth himself shall be exalted! Greatness consists not in original talents, but it will be found wherever our heavenly Father is permitted to control and operate through our lives. Bunyan and Luther and Lincoln would have remained in undiscovered obscurity except that they permitted the great God to build His mighty thoughts into their humble lives. The measure of a man depends on how much of God he permits to enter into his life. All creation is full of God; the flower has more of God than the stone, the bird than the flower; but man is God's masterpiece. The masterpiece in marble or canvas is the work in which the artist has invested most of himself. God's investment in man is an intimation of the possibilities of the man who walks humbly with God. Mary Lyon used to say to her students: “If you want to serve your generation, go where no one else will go, and do what no one else will do.” It is the God-purpose which makes chapters of history! It is the God-thought which is the nucleus of individual glory and renown. The evolution of the good goes steadily forward. If a man would have a part in the great process of the world's redemption he must be good—and this he will come to if he strives to “walk humbly with his God.” —C. E. Locke, D. D.