p. 596 | HIS WORK

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 18, 1900

HIS WORK.

The King's Messenger.

Sow the seed and wait on the Lord. He will surely bring it to pass. Wait, I say, on the Lord. He has all this business in hand, it is his work. We can not do it, try as we may. We may work and wait, and toil and give, but we can not add an inch to our stature. The battle is the Lord's. We try to make it ours, and take him in when we get in difficulty and fail. Here is our mistake. This is the reason we do not get on. We try to do his work. Let him work—work in us, by us, through us. Receive him! This is the secret. He is no failure, and he will surely accomplish and finish his work. We may be workers together with him; but he is not to assist us: we are to be instruments for him. We may plant the seed, but he brings forth the harvest; we may scatter the truth, but he gives the increase. He is the Lord, the Sent One, the Comforter. The Holy Ghost is his name. He has come to take his place, not only in the heart of man, but in the affairs of life, all over the world. This revolted empire—this globe of ours—is to be brought into subjection to its owner, the King of kings and Lord of lords. The Another Comforter is sent to do this business, and he is doing it.

“It may not be my way, It may not be thy way, But still in his own way”—

his work is going on. He uses human instruments. It is necessary that the human and the divine be united, and to this end we simply receive him, and there will be no end of our getting on. Our church will get on. It doesn't now; it does everything else. My! how the church languishes and retrogrades. The momentum downward is great, and greatly accelerated. What can be done? Millions of money and millions of additions will not stop the great loss tendency. He, and he only, can. What a pity the dear church of Christ does not obey the commands of Jesus, and accede to his request, and receive the Holy Ghost.