| In all our service and witness for the Lord, let us remember that if it is to count for Him, it must be “according to His working, which worketh in me mightily.” It cannot and must not be by human strength or wisdom. Nevertheless, our whole heart must be in it, for “I also labor, striving according to His working,” “for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” He does His work in our hearts and directs and empowers our service by His Word. Thus Paul wrote to the Thessalonians that “for this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.” “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” “If a man therefore purge himself … he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work,” “fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.” |
