Today’s Manna

"The servants of God should become workmen that need not to be ashamed, that they may build up the church of God in the earth. This work cannot possibly be done without much meditation, prayer, and humility. . . . A living, working church will be a power in the world, but there must be well-defined plans carried out with all faithfulness. If those who are elders and deacons in the church devote their God-given powers to money making, they will not be serving the Lord or the church; but they will be serving themselves, and the high task committed to their hands will suffer for the lack of patient, intelligent, well-directed effort. . . .

"It is time to 'be sober,' to 'be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour' (1 Peter 5:8). But you are to "resist the devil, and he will flee from you, Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you" (James 4:7, 8). Put intelligence into your work, and seek to bring the church of God into a healthy condition."¹