Working for God
Go Work Today, June 8
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the
knowledge of the holy is understanding. Proverbs 9:10.
Capabilities have been entrusted to every
soul. These are talents to be improved by faithful service, that Christ at His
coming may receive His own with usury.
We hear much of the higher education as the
world regards the subject. But those who are ignorant of the higher education
as it was taught and exemplified in the life of Christ,
are ignorant of what constitutes the higher education. Higher education means
conformity to the terms of salvation. It embraces the experience of daily looking
unto Jesus, and of working together with Christ for the saving of the
perishing.
Idleness is sin, for there is a world to be
labored for. Christ gave His life to the work of uplifting the fallen and the
sinful. Though He was the Prince of heaven, He lived and suffered and died
under the abuse and scorn of fallen men; and this that He might prepare for the
human family mansions in the heavenly courts. Christ imparted instruction of
the highest order. Can we imagine a higher education than that to be gained in
cooperation with Him?
Now is our time to work. The end of all things
is at hand; soon the night cometh in which no man can work. This night is much
nearer than many suppose. Lift up the man of Calvary before those who are
living in sin. By pen and voice labor to sweep back the false
ideas that have taken possession of men’s minds regarding the higher education.
To every worker Christ gives the command, Go work today in My
vineyard for the glory of My name. Represent before a world laden with corruption
the blessedness of true higher education. Light is to shine forth from every
believer. The weary, the heavy-laden, the broken-hearted, and the perplexed,
are to be pointed to Christ, the source of all spiritual life and strength....
Seek for the higher education, which is entire
conformity to the will of God, and you will surely reap the reward that comes
as the result of its reception. When you hourly place yourselves in that
position where you can be the recipients of the blessing of God, the name of
the Lord will be magnified through your lives. E. G. White—Letter 102, June 8,
1909, to E. A. Sutherland and P. T. Magan, educators
formerly at Battle Creek and Berrien Springs, but now at the school at Madison,
Tennessee.