"He that hath my word, let
him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
Is not my word . . . like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?"
Jeremiah 23:28, 29.

 

Where is the missing ministry?
Where is the voice of the prophet? This prophesying is not foretelling future
events, but making the Word of God heard in the conscience.

 

We have had teachers who have
recovered, through the grace of God, many a long lost truth. But the ministry
of yesterday is not that of today. Yesterday, ignorance was the besetting sin
and for this teachers were needed; today, it is deadness of conscience. For
this a prophet’s voice is required.

 

Truths that cost those who dug
them out years of prayer and fasting can now be clearly apprehended by the
perusal of a single tract without the least exercise of heart or conscience.
The result is appalling.

 

Your laying hold of a truth and
truth laying hold of you are two vastly different things. Shall we not cry to
God for true prophets, who will not flinch in exposing "in the light"
the hidden corruption which loves darkness. Men of godly lines and lives who
are gifted to speak solemnly and searchingly can awaken the long slumbering
conscience.

 

Let none say love forbids such
an exercise of gift. Love calls for it. None loved like our Lord and yet none
ever spoke to the conscience like He, who was not only full of grace but also
full of truth.

 

Such a ministry is greatly
needed. No doubt self-satisfaction would receive a death blow. Much "fair
show in the flesh" would be brought to an end; but only that which is
false and unreal would suffer, and surely no heart would regret this.

 

The question for us is whether
our reputation is dearer to our hearts than God’s glory. We have speakers and
writers, but where is this ministry to be found? Is it silent through fear of
man?

 

The Lord will hear prayer. Let
every true heart to whom His honor is dear, cry to Him to raise up in our midst
in conscience-searching power this missing ministry.