GOSPEL WORK

GOSPEL WORK

It was very pleasant to me to hear from you and of the way the Lord is encouraging you in His service. I do not think you should be distressed because there are not more conversions; probably there are converts who are only deepening, and when they confess Christ they will do so vigorously. Conversions are now, I fear, often without much root. I am sure I had much rather see the young converts in heaviness than in the exuberant gladness which they profess and appear to have. Where are the “three days” of exercise in which Saul ate nothing? Besides, when you are happily doing the work which the Lord has sent you to do, you can fall back upon Him as your base. No servant is established who does not possess a base of operations. The Lord Himself could say, “I thank thee, O Father”, not because of His prosperity, but apparently the very opposite!

I rejoice with you in the Lord’s mercy to you. “Prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth” (3 John 2). To have both is great favour, a double prosperity!