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Alone with God

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 22, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 45, No. 17.

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Alone with God.

Christian life in our days is full of activity. It finds pleasure in planning, giving, and working for Christ’s cause. This spirit of consecration gives joy to all Christians who recognize it, and inspires confident hopes in the aggressive movements of the church. But it conceals also a great peril. All Christian power springs from communion with God, and from the indwelling of divine grace. One can do good to others only as his heart pulsates with love to Jesus and has a present experience of his love. We can impart only what we receive. Any stream will run dry, unless fed from unfailing springs. Any Christian labor will be fruitless, and Christian zeal be like sounding brass, unless the soul waits daily on God, and finds new strength in prayer and in study of the Bible.