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There’s something I have learned in the past year or so, something that I should have known a long time before but it finally dawned on me what it really was that I was staring at all of this time. God works through men, he doesn’t often cause the sun to stand still or send fire down from heaven these days, his work is done through men.

Men are God’s method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. When God declares that “the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him,” he declares the necessity of men and his use of them as a channel through which to exert his power upon the world. What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use-men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. I either read or hear about Churches talking about their new “program” or “organization” or “committee” or “publication or whatever thing it happens to be that they want money for at the moment. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men-men of prayer. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, living their every day lives for God, not just Sunday mornings. These can mold a generation for God. I go to church and I hear people saying “Praise the Lord!!!” so everyone can hear, but I also know these people at home and I hear all kinds of things but no praising the Lord. I hear things that if I were to have said them a few years ago I would have felt a belt on my seat as well at tasted soap for the rest of the day. This from the same people that are full of “Praise the Lord” and “God bless you!” on Sunday mornings. Somehow this brings to mind a scripture that I have kind of taken as my own little lecture lesson on a regular basis taken from James 3 and speaking of the tongue, “Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? So can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.” I’ve never had a problem with foul language as it seems that most of the people I see do have, but I have been doing things that I knew were not right and I have to remind myself, can I produce foul water and fresh, or can my eyes take in both filth and holy things?

Living a life for God isn’t as easy as we would like it to be but if you stop and think for a minute, what else is there for us to do? I can think of one other thing, which is to live life for ourselves, which is really much harder! Think about it, God has said that he never changes, so we know what to expect and we know what to do to live our life for him. On the other hand, we are constantly changing and going one way and another so how can we expect to keep up with ourselves, trying to live life according to our own wishes? Since as soon as we get that thing we so longed for 5 minutes ago, we get tired of it and wish for something else! It’s an exercise in futility to try and please ourselves, so why do we even try? The only way to really live a fulfilled life is to live that life for God.