EVEN AS HE 10. IN HIS PLANS AND THOUGHT

The wisdom of the fathers

EVEN AS HE continued

10. IN HIS PLANS AND THOUGHT.

The Master has said as the tenderest expression of His love: “I have not called you servants, but I have called you friends.” We are not working as slaves at a task, but as partners in a blessed fellowship in which we share all the plans and thoughts of our Lord respecting His work. We are not required to go in blind obedience and do simply what we are told, but we are entrusted with His resources and guided by His wisdom, in cooperation with Him, working with us, to carry out intelligently His great plans for the redemption of this world.

Therefore, He has unfolded to us the mystery of His kingdom and the great purpose of His providence respecting Israel, the Church and His second coming. We are trusted and confidential friends and fellow-workers, and counted true yoke-fellows with Him in all His cherished thoughts and purposes. Let this inspire us to more loyal service, and fill us with a love that casts out all fear, to know that in all that is dearest to His heart we share His fullest confidence, and as He is so we are in this world.

(from "Wholly Sanctified" by A.B. Simpson)