Daily Soul Work | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 12, 1873

Daily Soul Work.

THE world is full of broad, popular, shallow religious life. There are multitudes of religious books, enterprises, societies, assemblies and associations. There is no doubt much piety, zeal, and enthusiasm in all this, as well as much speech-making, self-praise, and trumpet-blowing.

But men's sins are not pardoned, nor are their souls saved, by the glittering generalities which go to occupy the attention of the religious world. Men will be ignorant, even in colleges, if they do not learn; hungry in cook shops, if they do not eat; and lost in the religious tumult, if they do not have personal dealings with the Lord.

We must have our daily soul-work between ourselves and God, our secret communion with him, or we shall starve even though surrounded by plenty. We must read our Bibles, do our praying, and believing, and weeping before the Lord, conquer our own enemies in the strength which Jesus gives, and grow in grace and in the knowledge of God singly and in his sight. We cannot be pardoned in masses, or saved in crowds. Strait is the gate, and each must find it and enter it for himself alone. Let us beware lest, in seeking outward excitements, we forget and lose the blessedness of inward Christian life. Let us walk with God.—Sel.