CAN NOT STOP THE WIND by H. A. St. John

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 18, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 42.

CAN NOT STOP THE WIND.

By H. A. St. John

BY H. A. ST. JOHN.

"If you have tasted that the Lord is gracious, if you know His saving power, you can no more keep from telling this to some one else than you can stop the wind from blowing."

The above remarkable but truthful statement occurs in one of the Week of Prayer readings. Is it not a strong and clear statement of a naked truth?

When persons have been persuaded to taste and see that the Lord is good and gracious, and thus have come to know His saving power, they will not need to be urged or exhorted to seek the lost and erring. They will tell with gladness what great things God has done for them, and they will seek out the lost to win them to Christ.

Many a time I have traveled in a cold, sharp wind, and I would gladly have stopped it, but I was never able to do so in a single instance. Likewise, a soul that knows the power of God, and has tasted the joys of His salvation will find his greatest pleasure in portraying a Saviour's love. Without fainting, untiringly, impelled by love divine, all love excelling, they will be occupied in gathering with Christ.

And further, may it not be just as truly said that those who have "tasted that the Lord is gracious," and know His saving power, can no more keep from giving tithes and offerings as the Lord has prospered them, than they can stop the wind from blowing. The Lord's treasury will then be filled to overflowing, and will be kept full, and these same souls, in great numbers, will everywhere be crying and praying, "Lord, here am I, send me." And thus the great harvest will be supplied with laborers, consecrated souls, who will be true workers together with Christ. All earthly treasure will not be in the heart, but simply in the hand, to be used as the Lord may direct for His glory, and they themselves will keep themselves in the hand of the Lord, as vessels sanctified to the Master's use, ever pleasing God in all things, because His Spirit will ever work in them both to will and to do His good pleasure.