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Laborers with Him

Ye are the light of the world. Matt. 5:14.

Our Lord designed that His church should reflect to the world the fullness
and sufficiency that we find in Him. We are constantly receiving of God's
bounty, and by imparting of the same we are to represent to the world the
love and beneficence of Christ. While all heaven is astir, dispatching
messengers to every part of the earth to carry forward the work of
redemption, the church of the living God are also to be colaborers with
Christ. We are members of His mystical body. He is the head, controlling all
the members of the body. Jesus Himself, in His infinite mercy, is working on
human hearts, effecting spiritual transformations so amazing that angels
look on with astonishment and joy. The same unselfish love that
characterizes the Master is seen in the character and life of His true
followers. Christ expects that men will become partakers of His divine
nature while in this world, thus not only reflecting His glory to the praise
of God, but illumining the darkness of the world with the radiance of
heaven. Thus will be fulfilled the words of Christ: "Ye are the light of the
world."

"We are labourers together with God," "stewards of the manifold grace of
God." The knowledge of God's grace, the truths of His Word, and temporal
gifts as well--time and means, talents and influence--are all a trust from
God to be employed to His glory and the salvation of men. Nothing can be
more offensive to God, who is constantly bestowing His gifts upon man, than
to see him selfishly grasping these gifts and making no returns to the
Giver. Jesus is today in heaven preparing mansions for those who love Him;
yes, more than mansions, a kingdom which is to be ours. But all who shall
inherit these blessings must be partakers of the self-denial and
self-sacrifice of Christ for the good of others.

Never was there greater need of earnest, self-sacrificing labor in the cause
of Christ than now, when the hours of probation are fast closing and the
last message of mercy is to be given to the world. My soul is stirred within
me as the Macedonian cry comes from every direction, from the cities and
villages of our own land, from across the Atlantic and the broad Pacific,
and from the islands of the sea: "Come over . . . , and help us." Brethren
and sisters, will you answer the cry? saying: "We will do our best, both in
sending you missionaries and money. We will deny ourselves in the
embellishment of our houses, in the adornment of our persons, and in the
gratification of appetite. We will give the means entrusted to us into the
cause of God, and we will devote ourselves also unreservedly to His work." .
. . Let every dollar that you can spare be invested in the bank of heaven
(Testimonies, vol. 5, pp. 731-733).

>From Lift Him Up - Page 289

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