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The Holy Spirit Helps the Willing to Obey February 26
A Commission and a Comforter
“When they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought
beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever
shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that
speak, but the Holy Ghost” (Mark 13:11).
We are not willing enough to trouble the Lord with our petitions,
and to ask Him for the gift of the Holy Spirit. The Lord wants us to
trouble Him in this matter. He wants us to press our petitions to the
throne. The converting power of God needs to be felt throughout our
ranks. The most valuable education that can be obtained will be
found in going out with the message of truth to the places that are
now in darkness. We should go out just as the first disciples went out
in obedience to the commission of Christ. . . . “I send you forth,” He
said, “as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents,
and harmless as doves” (Matthew 10:16). . . .
The Lord wants us to come into harmony with Him. If we will do
this, His Spirit can rule our minds. 67
There is need of close self-examination in the light of the word of
God, that we may do the work essential to be done. 68
The revelation of the Son of God upon the cross, dying for the sins
of men, draws the hearts of men by the power of infinite love, and
convinces the sinner of sin. Christ died because the law was transgressed,
that guilty man might be saved from the penalty of his enormous
guilt. But history has proved that it is easier to destroy the
world than to reform it; for men crucified the Lord of glory, who came
to unite earth with heaven, and man with God. 69
[Christ] promised His followers that when they should stand
before councils and judges, they were to take no thought what they
should speak. I will instruct you, He said. I will guide you. Knowing
what it is to be taught of God, when words of heavenly wisdom are
brought to our mind, we shall distinguish them from our own
thoughts. We shall understand them as the words of God, and we
shall see in the words of God wisdom and life and power. 70
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