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God Has Chosen You

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 1, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 26.

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God Has Chosen You

By Judson A. Baker

JUDSON A. BAKER
The Lord has made every human being a free moral agent. He has a right to choose to live a life in harmony with God’s life, or to choose to do evil. There are two highways upon which all are traveling. One leads to life everlasting, and the other leads to eternal death. The Lord says, “Choose you this day whom ye will serve.” Although we have the blessed privilege of choosing, it is also true that while we were sinners, the Lord was seeking to save us. “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” Rev. 3: 20.
Not only does he call the sinner who makes no profession of Christianity to turn and serve him, but he also calls for his professed followers to make a complete surrender, and connect closer with their source of strength. God has a special work for his people to do, and he will give his chosen ones strength to proclaim his truth with power. Jesus says, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit.” John 15: 16. In the past the Lord has done just what he said he would do, and he will verify his promises to-day to all who will believe.
There is a world lying in wickedness, not knowing that the Lord is soon coming, nor how they should live to be ready to meet him in peace. The call of the Lord at this time is, “Son, go work to-day in my vineyard.” We cannot long excuse ourselves by saying, “No man hath hired us.” “Intelligent, persevering efforts rightly directed will produce results.” God says of his word, “It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Isa. 55: 11. Is not God calling every one to work for him at this time? All cannot do the same work, but all can be witnesses for Jesus. Soon the world will be warned, and the subjects of God’s everlasting kingdom will be made up.
What a blessed privilege it is to be chosen of God to do a work for him. “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.” 1 Peter 2: 9.