Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1917 A WILLING MIND 447
stroyed them, and made all their memory perish." "And
I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with
them, and they shall be his people, and God himself
shall be with them, and be their God." (Isa. xxvi. 1, 2,
13, 14; Rev. xxi. 3.)
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"If there be iirst a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath
and not according to that he hath not."-ll. Cor. viii. 12.
gv1n§n1a@F we look at this statement carefully, we
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time has not been
li' associated with some person or persons in
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effect of unwilling minds? Who has not seen those who
had the' powers to do and to accomplish rendered utterly
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useless by an unwilling mind?
Again, who has not seen those who had little natural
ability for the work in hand, prove very efiicient by their
great desire and willingness to do and to accomplish.
God is aiwise teacher and a loving Father, and he does
not look for figs from thistles. If his children are willing
and 'desirous of using the talents that they have,
he will never ask them to use the talents that they have
not.
Indeed some things are better not done at all, than to
be done unwillingly, for by doing some things unwillingly,
we often do one an injury, especially if it be done in the
form of 'a favor( To illustrate. `A friend said to me on