Testimony Treasures, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

Chapter 4
Laborers for God
Fellow laborers in the great harvest field, we have but little time left in
which to labor. Now is the most favorable opportunity we shall ever have,
and how carefully ought every moment to be employed. So devoted was our
Redeemer to the work of saving souls that He even longed for His baptism of
blood. The apostles caught the zeal of their Master and firmly, steadily,
zealously went forward to the accomplishment of their great work, fighting
against principalities and powers, and spiritual wickedness in high places.
We are living in a time when even greater earnestness is needed than in
the apostles' day. But among many of the ministers of Christ there is a
feeling of unrest, a desire to imitate the romantic style of modern revivalists,
a desire to do something great, to create a sensation, to be accounted able
speakers, and to gain for themselves honor and distinction. If such could
encounter perils and receive the honor given to heroes, they would engage in
the work with unflagging energy. But to live and labor almost unknown, to
toil and sacrifice for Jesus in obscurity, receiving no special praise from
men--this requires a soundness of principle and a steadfastness of purpose
that but few possess. Were there a greater effort to walk humbly with God,
looking away from men and laboring only for Christ's sake, far more would
be accomplished.
My ministering brethren, seek Jesus with all lowliness and meekness.
Do not try to draw the attention of the people to yourselves. Let them lose
sight of the instrument, while you exalt Jesus. Talk of Jesus; lose self in
Jesus. There is too much bustle and stir about our religion, while Calvary and
the cross are forgotten.
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