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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 24, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 45.

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Willing Servants of God

Most of us wish that God would use us for some great purpose; but very few of us are so wholly given up to God in loving trust that we are in a condition to be used by him for a great purpose—or a little one. God is a great deal readier to use willing servants who proffer themselves to him unreservedly, than men are to proffer themselves unreservedly to God as his willing servants. We should all like to be taken, "just as we are," for the honorable duties assigned to those who are wholly the Lord's. But the Lord wants us to come, "just as we are," and submit ourselves wholly to him, for whatever duty he may have for us to do. It is first the enlistment and then the detail; not first the detail and then the enlistment.—Selected.