NO GOD TO GO TO | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 17, 1859

“NO GOD TO GO TO.”

A FEW weeks ago, while far from home, I went up to the “house of the Lord” to worship with his people. When the hour came for the Sabbath-school, I entered a slip in which several ladies were seated, hoping to garner some good from that day’s exercises.

Just before the time for closing came, one member of the class, whose heart seemed all aglow with love for Jesus, and a desire for the salvation of precious souls, requested of the class that they should remember in prayer a dear friend who was deeply afflicted, and who, as she expressed it, “seemed to have no God to go to.”

“No God to go to!”—How the words lingered in my heart; I could not shake them off.

“No God to go to!” How dreadful the condition; and yet there are so many among the list of chosen friends on whose heart the name of the God who made them and loves them with pitying tenderness is not engraven. Thousands and thousands all over our world coldly turn from his proffered mercy, and live on, without “a God to go to.”

When never a cloud lowers upon your pathway, and all your hopes bud and bloom and come to ripened maturity with never a blight on their beauty, can you receive all, and never desire “a God to go to,” in the spirit of the Psalmist, who cried, “Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice?”

Have you never a “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,” to utter?

Alas, when the raindrops of grief shall fall heavy upon your heart, and the waves of some crushing agony come surging over your spirit, in that hour of utter desolation how will you feel the need of “a God to go to!”

If you have no hope in him who died on Calvary, seek him now, that through life and in death, in sunshine or cloud, in joy or sorrow, your everlasting trust may be in him who is ready to receive all who come unto him. A. M. L.— Am. Mess.