WHAT SHALL I DO?

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 7, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 26.

"Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" Acts 9:6.

THE answer to this question entirely depends on what you are. If you are a sinner, seeking salvation, "believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." If you have just been brought to believe on his name, then profess him in baptism, unite yourself with his people, commemorate his love at his own table, and walk in all the ordinances and commandments of the Lord blameless. If you are a baptized believer in union with his church, then he would have you consecrate yourself to his service. Visit his sick ones, relieve his poor, circulate his truth, teach his babes, comfort his sorrowful ones, strengthen his weak ones, bear your testimony for him whenever an opportunity offers. Be much with him in private, read and meditate on his word, aim to honor him in everything, always and everywhere; carry your religion with you wherever you go, carry your religion into everything, be thorough out and out. "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." Make Christ and his glory the great object and end of your life, so that you may be able to say with Paul, "For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain;" so that it may be said of you, "None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord; whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's." Let every purpose you form, every work in which you engage, and every pleasure you enjoy, say, "I AM THE LORD'S." Live for the Lord, work for the Lord, suffer for the Lord. Make his precepts your rule, his honor your aim, and to please him the end of every action of your life.

"For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." 1 Cor. 6:20.—Selected.