Around the World in 88 Years -E Book - Arthur Burt

oots. And if you want a fruitful Christian life, you must alsocultivate the root of it. What is your life rooted in?There is no Christian activity higher than worship, and true worshipperswill be the most effective workers. If, however, you havework without worship, you have missed God. This is the choicethe Church must make today.God would rather have 10 men who are 100 percent for Himthan 100 men who are 10 percent for Him. Why did God tellGideon to send home more than 30,000 soldiers just before thebattle? “…lest Israel vaunt themselves….” (Judges 7:2) He wantedonly those men fighting His cause who would give Him the glory.The others would have taken credit for the upcoming victorybecause of their numbers.“All I ever did, I never did…”At the marriage feast at Cana, Mary seeks to relate Jesus to theneed. “They have no wine.” (John 2:3) “And they are such a nicecouple. Can’t You do something?”Jesus is abrupt and almost rude as He says, “Woman, what haveI to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come.” (John 2:4) Withinan hour, His hour came, and He said, “Fill the water pots withwater.” (John 2:7) …the beginning of the miracles manifestingHis glory.Jesus went to only one man at the pool of Bethesda, healed him,and left the rest. Why? Was He tired? Fed up? Backslidden? No,because this principle governed Him — His Father hadn’t directedHim to do anything more. In John 5:19 Jesus says, “The Son cando nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do.”Jesus always related primarily to His Father, and His Father relatedHim to need. The church does not recognize this prioritytoday. You can blackmail most Christians just by using the oneword, “need”. The needs of the world are overwhelming. Everytime the clock ticks, a child is born; every time you take a breath,an Indian dies.Tell most pastors there is a woman in need in the hospital or afamily in need down the street, and they’ll come into bondage,running around like scalded cats, ministering to needs rather than236