Empowered to Answer by Sunday School Times

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 17, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 49.

Empowered to Answer

By Sunday School Times

WHEN God calls a man to do anything, He always accompanies the call with a gift. That gift is the power to answer the call. To hear God's call in any detail of life is like receiving an invitation from a friend at a distance to make him a visit, and finding that the friend has enclosed with the invitation a check for an amount more than sufficient to meet all the expenses. That is the way God invites us to do as He suggests. He always encloses with the invitation more than enough to cover the cost. If God is calling you to-day to anything,—as He certainly is,—be sure that He is also empowering you to answer His call. We may have to step right out on faith; but the power is there, and will not fail. We may reject the power, and reject the call, and wound God, and suffer unspeakable loss; but our failure will not have been because the way was not clear to our succeeding. When God calls, God empowers. If He calls us to the impossible, He empowers us to the impossible. He never miscalculates. Why should we ever hold back?