p. 111 | WHAT WE CAN DO by I. N. Van Gorder

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 23, 1860

WHAT WE CAN DO.

By I. N. Van Gorder

How frequently we hear a brother or sister say, “What can I do to further the cause of God,” and, “I wish I could help the cause,” and various expressions of like character. To such I would say, there is a work for every individual; but you must not look too high or you will not see it.

Do not aspire to something God has never given you the ability or means to do, and thus neglect to do your duty; but be content to do such things as you can; for this is what, and all, the Lord intended you should do. And now what can we do? We can live an exemplary life, and this a great help.

We can meet often with one another, conversing upon appropriate subjects, engaging in prayer, and thus strengthening one another. This is not exclusively the work of the messengers. Their duty is to preach the truth, ours to live it out. God notices these acts of ours. See Mal. iii, 16, 17. “Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it; and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name; and they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels, and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.”

May the Lord help us to be living epistles, read and known of all men; to do what we can do, and to work fast, that we may be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless. I. N. VAN GORDER. Portage, Ohio.