H. A. ST. JOHN by H. A. St. John

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 22, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 46.

H. A. ST. JOHN

By H. A. St. John

A Biblical Paradox—No. 2

"WHEREFORE, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure." Phil. 2: 12, 13.

What a beautiful paradox, and how manifestly true. God must first work in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure, and then we work out what He works in. Thus we may understand how we may be workers together with God in the best and highest sense. How blessed such a fellowship. Then everything in our lives, whether we eat or drink, or whatsoever we do, will be to His glory here, and He will at last take us to dwell with Him in glory hereafter. Reader, is God working in you? and are you diligently working out His good pleasure?