Second, they must be attempted with the right motive of glorifying God.
Christ is the pattern. He came not to do his own will, but the will of
him who sent him. And he did always the things that pleased him. In
our fervid desires for the accomplishment of some great thing we should
be as willing it should be accomplished by another as by ourselves.
The personal pride is often a fly in the sweet-smelling savor. God
would rather have a given work not done, or done by another, than to
have one of his dear ones puffed up with sinful pride. Great Saul must
often be removed and the work be left undone, or be done by some humble
David.
"Inaudible voices call us, and we go;
Invisible hands restrain us, and we stay;
Forces, unfelt by our dull senses, sway
Our wavering wills, and hedge us in the way
We call our own, because we do not know.
"Are we, then, slaves of ignorant circumstance?
Nay, God forbid!
God holds the world, not blind, unreasoning chance!"
How shall we secure the cooperative power? There is power of every
kind everywhere in plenty. All the Niagaras and Mississippis have run
to waste since they began to thunder and flow. Greater power is in the
wind everywhere. One can rake up enough electricity to turn all the
wheels of a great city whenever he chooses to start his rake.
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