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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 24, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 59.

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WORKING FOR THE LORD.

By G. W. Johnson

BY G. W. JOHNSON.
"I WANT to go into the work." How often we hear this expression from the lips of God-fearing men and women, who have already consecrated their lives to the Master, yet are continually looking forward to some time when circumstances will be favorable for such work! Each person has a desire, perhaps, to labor in this way or that way, yet he feels that he will not be laboring for the Master until he has acquired a certain proficiency in that line. He feels that in order to perform any real labor for Christ he must go out into some unknown field. There is some great gulf between him and the Master's vineyard, and he must cross over if he would enlist in his service. My dear brother, if this has been your experience, let it be one of the past.
When you enlisted in the service of Christ, you became his servant and a worker for him, and until you are a deserter from his cause you are his servant. Doing what? Unless you are doing his work, whose work are you doing? If you are not serving the Master, whom are you serving? Rom. 16:16; Matt. 6:24. My brother, you are in the work. You are in the Master's vineyard, and God wants you to work to-day, and whatsoever is right he will repay you. What is your work to-day?—Hoeing the garden, or driving your team, or it may be some other of the various occupations to which necessity calls you. That which is your work to-day, do with your might, and for the Master's sake, realizing that the hand of the Lord is in it.
Make every part of your work bear the stamp of a Christian. Let your Christian life shine out in every hour of labor, conversation, and at the home fireside. Do not engage in a work on which you cannot ask God's blessing. We can look back over our past lives and see many places where we could have accomplished a good work if we had only been faithful, if we had only realized that God wanted us to be faithful just then.
Brethren, we must learn to "be faithful now." We must learn to rely upon God just where we are before he can intrust to us new and untried work.
Grand Ford, Or.