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MINISTERING TO THE WILL OF GOD
L. McFarlane
My desire is to minister a word of comfort to us all. In the ways
of God we are in the presence of death. By one man sin
entered into the world and death is the consequence of sin.
All have sinned and come short of God’s glory, but the blessed
fact is that the believer in Jesus has the glorious hope of
seeing Him and being with Him eternally. The grave is not our
goal; we anticipate His coming for us and His glorious
appearing. In the meantime our beloved sister is among those
who have gone before.
The scripture in the Acts in relation to David says that he in his
own generation ministered to the will of God. These scriptures
are intended to challenge us and to awaken us to our
responsibility as lovers of Jesus. Paul is calling attention to
David, reminding us of the Lord Jesus, the One who was here
not doing His will, not doing as He pleased, but here
exclusively for God’s pleasure and God’s will. Our sister in her
measure ministered to the will of God.
Her life of devotion was in relation to the testimony. She
supported it and had her part in it in her own generation. One
affecting thing about our sister was her genuine, prayerful
concern for the younger brethren. Some here this morning
have been the subject of our sister’s, prayers. May the Lord in
His goodness lay His hands upon them. May her prayers be
fulfilled. Her desire was that there might be a whole-hearted
committal to the things of our Lord Jesus. Paul could speak of
Timothy as one who was like-minded with himself, but then he
goes on to say, “all seek