WORKING FOR GOD by Ellen G. White

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 31, 1906

WORKING FOR GOD.

By Ellen G. White

WHEN the Master went away He gave to every man his work. Not one was excused.

The influence of the Spirit of God is thus brought to unite with man's human power, so that there is a co-operation. The God of heaven does not work for man without his co-operation. The Spirit of God co-operates with us, and our powers co-operate with the Spirit of God. Thus we become laborers together with God. As we are laborers with God and work out our own salvation, it is not we that work, but God that worketh in us, to will and to do of His own good pleasure.

Thus we acknowledge always that in the great work of redemption, Jesus Christ is the ladder, the base of it resting upon the earth, and the topmost round reaching into the highest heaven; that He connects earth with heaven, and finite man with the infinite God.

The powers that God has given us in reason, in ability, are God's gifts, and it is for us to use them for His service to employ in doing good to mankind around us. We need not think that because we do not go to foreign countries that there is nothing for us to do. There is missionary work to be done right around your own door. We want to know how to bless humanity, to know and to meet the high claims that God has upon us; to acknowledge that all our reasoning powers are a gift from God, and that we must put every talent to use. We must use every ability that God has given us, and the education in our life will never cease. It will continue reaching upward and forward making the very most of our God-given abilities in time and eternity.

MRS. E. G. WHITE.