Are You Outside of God’s Work?

Many people look around to see where God is working, and there they want to be. The one group strives more than the next one to make it appear as if God is working among them.

“Then He said to them all, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.” Luke 9:23.

The only way in which we can be along in God’s work is by denying ourselves. Then we follow Jesus, and then we must necessarily be where God is working. Such a person is never outside of God’s area of activity, but he does end up outside of all religious clamor.

The shepherds in the field were not outside of God’s work, but the high priest and the entire religious establishment in Jerusalem were outside of God’s work. David, behind the sheep, was not outside of God’s work, but his brothers who marched past Samuel one after the other were.

God’s work is not what transpires in front of people’s eyes, because He always hides His work under a cover of reproach so that the spirits of pride shall not understand it. Isa. 4:5.

It is not so certain that the one who holds meetings is along in God’s work, or those who are called elder brethren, or the ones who sit on committees; but the one who each day purifies himself just as He is pure is certain to be along in God’s work even though he might be on the sidelines and alone.