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But some will say: "He does not give freely; we must work and
struggle. Why do you mock poor hard-worked creatures with such words
as these?"
Ask that question of God, my friends, and not of me. Isaiah said
that those who hearkened to God diligently should eat what is good.
The Lord Jesus Christ Himself said the same--that if we seek first
the kingdom of God and His justice, all other things should be added
to them. He did not mean us to be idle, God forbid! but this He
meant, that if we, each in his business and calling, put steadily
before ourselves what is right, what God would wish us, His subjects,
to be in His Kingdom--if instead of making our first thought in every
business we take in hand, "What will suit my interest best, what will
raise most money, what will give me most pleasure?" we said to
ourselves all day long, "What will be most right, and just, and
merciful for us to do; what will be most pleasing to a God who is
love and justice itself? what will do most good to my neighbour as
well as myself?" then all things would go well with us. Then we
should be prosperous and joyful. Then our plans would succeed and
our labour bring forth real profit to us, because they would be
according to the will of God: we should be fellow-workers with Jesus
Christ in the great work of doing good to this poor distracted world,
and His help and blessing would be with us.
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