p. 390 | GOD'S WORK

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 24, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 25.

GOD'S WORK.

EVERY sincere laborer in God's vineyard has a sense of responsibility in gathering the spiritual harvest. Jesus, when upon earth, never relieved his true followers of the burden. He said, "Go work to-day in my vineyard." If the early Christians had disregarded this command, holding that the salvation of the world was not a human task, but was exclusively a divine work, the kingdom of Christ would have been a failure; God's plan for the recovery of the world through regenerated souls would then have been set aside through man's obduracy and disobedience.

But there may come an hour in the believer's history when he can say: "After all, this is God's work, not mine;" "I have wholly followed the Lord my God;" "Now, therefore, give me this mountain." When the conditions have been all fulfilled on the human side, as they were in the case of believing Caleb, then the soul may rest in the divine promise, in the blessed assurance that God will bring results to pass in his own time and way.—Christian Advocate.