DO ALL FOR GOD | AdventAI

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, June 10, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 24

DO ALL FOR GOD.

The practical life of the Christian comprehends three distinct elements; viz., working, fighting, and suffering. We have to do the will of God in our business; this is working. We have to oppose our bosom sin, and to resist temptation; this is fighting. We have, finally, to endure with cheerfulness and submission whatever cross the Lord Jesus pleases to lay upon us; this is suffering. And to be right in the practical department of the Christian life is summed up in these three things: to work devoutly, to fight manfully, and to suffer patiently. Each man's wisdom and happiness must consist in doing, as well as

his faculties will admit, the work which God sets him. And the true motive lifts up the humblest duties into a higher atmosphere, and refines away their earthliness, and glorifies them. “Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as to the Lord, and not unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance; for ye serve the Lord Christ.”—Selected.