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"The WORLD TOMORROW"
A WORLDWIDE BROADCAST
HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG
Proclaims to the World the
GOOD NEWS OF THE WORLD TOMORROW
BOX 111, Pasadena, California
Publishing:
The PLAIN TRUTH
a Magazine of UNDERSTANDING
August 9, 1954
Dear Co-Workers:
God's great work is still in its tightest squeeze. In
His great wisdom God is giving us, the family of Co-Workers He has
called to His work, a great test of faith to TRY us---to develop
PATIENCE---to teach us the great lesson of ENDURING TO THE END---
never quitting or giving up!
Yes, it's true---the work of God is still in danger,
according to all apparent physical appearances. Please listen
carefully! I want to make this PLAIN. I have been overjoyed,
moved, deeply touched, by many of your letters in reply to my last
letter to you Co-Workers. Yet a few do not quite understand. A
few do not understand why, in the very work of God Almighty who has
ALL POWER, His chosen servant has to keep telling you Co-Workers of
the dire need. Why doesn't God just send all the money needed,
without the necessity of these urgent letters I have had to write
you?
Oh, dear Co-Workers, LISTEN! Let's understand how God
works. Of course God could just rain down nice new crisp thousand-
dollar bills right out of the sky. Yes, God could do that---but
THAT IS NOT GOD'S WAY. God works thru HUMAN instruments. Human
servants whose hearts are yielded, willing, responsive. That is
for OUR good. If God supplied all the need by direct miracle from
the skies, without any sacrifice or effort from all of us, THERE
WOULD BE NO BLESSING FOR US! His whole PURPOSE being worked out
here below would be defeated!
The Apostle Paul continually reminded those in the
Churches that God expected them to pay tithes and generously to
GIVE of offerings besides. But WHY? Listen: To the brethren at
Philippi, Paul wrote: "For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and
again unto my necessity. Not because I desire a gift: but I desire
fruit that may abound to your account." (Phil. 4:16-17.) Or, as it
is in plainer language in the Moffatt translation: "...you sent
money more than once for my needs. It is not the money I am
anxious for; what I am anxious for is the interest that accumulates
in this way to your divine credit." And in verse 18 the Apostle
was inspired to call their giving of money for God's work "a
fragrant perfume, the sort of sacrifice that God approves and
welcomes."
Tithing, and the sacrifice of giving, is GOD'S WAY for