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E NTERING INTO G OD ’ S S ABBATH R EST

prepared to spend the remainder of my life in silence if that was God’s plan for me, for the person also serves the Lord who only stands and waits, when He so directs. The time came when the Lord was apparently satisfied with the firmness of my resolve to operate within what we have since come to know as the Sabbath rest principles, for He began to open doors on the right hand and on the left. Some of these prov idences were quite remarkable and resulted in thorough conver sions to the message. Each contact came about in a different way but always it was clear that God had planned the meeting. Decades passed by after that, during which time the work grew to global proportions, but this made no change to that consecration and the consequent exercise of the procedures whereby God brought me into contact with many who were hungering for the truth. Once or twice I allowed others to influence me to make plans of my own, and each time the results were detrimental to the work. Otherwise, I steadfastly refused to initiate any schemes or devise any procedures whereby I could contact people and generate an in terest in the message. These things I left entirely with the Lord. He kept me so busy that I had no need to do this anyway, and, aft er many years of seeing the effectiveness of Christ being the Head and Plan Maker, I had no disposition to work any other way.” There should be nothing unique in the experience of Philip. This is the way God desires to work through every believer. To each person He has appointed a work. “It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with his assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.” Mark 13:34. “Each has his place in the eternal plan of heaven. Each is to work in co-operation with Christ for the salvation of souls. Not more surely is the place prepared for us in the heavenly man sions than is the special place designated on earth where we are to work for God.” Christ’s Object Lessons , 326.4. Although everyone has a work to do, not all are to do the same work. There may be many who could never give a Bible study Determining God’s Purpose