Living In The Light

July 30, While It Is Day

“I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.”
—John 9:4 LL 224.1

While Christ’s field of labor lay among the Jews, He instructed His disciples to go forth to those outside the camp, and to bear to them the message of a Savior’s love. In the few years of His work He must set forth the object of His mission and lay the foundation of the work that was to be taken up by His disciples. He must show that His work was to set souls free from the slavery of sin. And although generation after generation would pass away, His lessons of practical service would be given by His witnesses. He was to ascend to heaven, but His work was to be carried forward with greater power than before, because He and His Father would cooperate in doing greater things for His people than they had seen while He was among them. LL 224.2

We are to work while it is day, for the night cometh in which no one can work. Our life is represented as a day, and when our work is ended, when the worker ceases his busy activity, the work does not cease. Others take it up. Though the human agents pass away, the work of Christ does not cease, but goes on, each worker doing God service by working as Christ worked. LL 224.3

We often feel that in the work of God there are great interests to be handled that we are unable to touch. We seem bound about. Let us remember that Christ’s work while on earth was confined to a narrow compass. Yet multitudes from all parts of the world heard His lessons. He was giving His message to those who would afterwards become His disciples. LL 224.4

Christ worked out before His disciples and the world a perfect example of true religion. And when men and women realize the importance of showing patience, sympathy, and regard for the souls of people, nigh and afar off, Christ will be revealed in His followers. . . . By His Holy Spirit God is framing the building, using human agents to compose His temple. No one can do a good work, at home or in the regions beyond, unless they receive power from above. If we would work as Christ worked, we must look to Christ, our risen and ascended Savior, to give the work efficiency and perfection. We must depend upon Christ, our substitute, our surety, our power, and our sufficiency.— Manuscript 50, 1897. LL 224.5

Further Reflection: : How can you help to prepare the young to take up the work of God, especially as older members and workers take their rest? LL 224.6