Let Us Get Ready by Grace White

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 14, 1914

Let Us Get Ready

By Grace White

GRACE WHITE

WE as a people know that we are in the time of the end. We know that human history will soon close, probation will soon be over, and we must meet the results of life as individuals. Is it not, then, time to consider our cases as individuals?

Personally I am very thankful for the searching messages we received during the week of prayer, and I am praying that the searchlight of the Spirit may be turned on my heart and life and their true condition revealed. I want to be purified, even as He is pure, and thus cease to hinder his coming. Years ago it was written, "There are Enochs in the world today." Only tonight do I realize what that means. Is it not that they walk with God; that their cases have been examined, their names confessed in heaven, and they are ready for translation? It must be that there are many more Enochs now than when that was written, and that soon the testimony of Christ will be confirmed among us, and we "be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment."

The day will soon come when our names will be called in judgment. What are we doing each day to make sure that our names will be found in the book of life? Why not this year each of us make it his business to get ready, working out his salvation with fear and trembling? and then each will be ready to help his neighbor, or, rather, will be helping his neighbor all the while.

The way to walk with God is to "keep his testimonies" and to "seek him with the whole heart." They who do thus "do no iniquity: they walk in his ways." Ps. 119:2, 3. Then let us take time to be holy, take time for urgent prayer to be filled with the Spirit, for we know that God says, "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit." He also bids us: "Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain." "This promised blessing, claimed by faith, brings all other blessings in its train;" but "only to those who wait humbly on God, who

watch for his guidance and grace, is the Spirit given." Christ has promised, and it is for us to claim the promise. When we do this, fulfilling the conditions, we shall receive it and become channels through which God can work.

"There is no limit to the usefulness of the one who, putting self aside, makes room for the working of the Holy Spirit." He who has all power in heaven and earth will cut short the work in righteousness and come quickly. Let us say Amen by surrendering wholly and letting him work in us to will and to do of his good pleasure. The disciples "did not realize the necessity of watchfulness and earnest prayer in order to withstand temptation."

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