The Business of the Believer
"Do Business till I come," It is enough that the disciple shall be as his Lord. Our Lord \?as a business man. "My Father worketh hitherto and I work," arc 1 lis words. What ceaseless energy was manifiested by Him "who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the < levil." While He lived here He labored hard. When He left the a Srorl,d He laid the burden of service upon His followers. In t-he parable of the pounds, the Lord represents Himself as the nobleman going into a far country. To His servants He commanded, (occupy (do business) till I come. The supreme business in this world is that which a loving Lord has committed to His servants—the giving of the glorious gospel fo a perishing people. \ This work was not left to the church in a general sort of a way, so that no one is sipecially responsible for it, but in a definite way, so Ahat there is an individual responsibility for it. It is a personal business. Every servant had some pounds. "To every man his work." "The Spirit divideth to every man severally as He will," but there is an every man in that division. "Every man shall give an account of himself." There are no exceptions. It is a practical business. There has been a good deal of non- sense about this matter of spreading the Gospel and telling out the s tory of salvation. There has been a tendency to shift the responsi- bility upon a f a vop ii class, to evade the personal relation under the cfover of a prevailing belief that certain qualifications were essential t o the work, and the not possessing them was sufficient excuse for mon-service. Every believer is an authorized ambassador from the Court of Heaven to do business down here on this mundane sphere. He is empowered and directed to deliver the King's message to the p|eople. He is not responsible for the message, but will be held to a strict account for the delivery of it. Education, special equipment, environment and a lot of other things play no part in this matter. Education, equipment and environment may largely increase the re- sponsibility, but the obligation is upon each and all to stress the ¿tory to the people. Some of the most successful agents of the Lord ,;ire poorly equipped from the world's point, but God uses them. The business is simple. Get your message, go and deliver it. So long as man or woman lives anywhere in the world who has never heard elf Christ and the cross, every believer is obligated to get the news of reconciled grace to such an one. ; I It is a paying business. Does it pay? Yes, a thousand times yes. (trood, reliable dividends. There is a sense of satisfaction, a real joy in doing the will of God in this business that nothing else gives. It is the incomparable work. It pays now and will bring returns through- out eternity. f The Lord help us to attend to our business which is His business.
Made with FlippingBook - Online catalogs