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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
February 25, 1955
GREETINGS! Dear Co-Workers:
A most critical situation has overtaken us! Right now we
are in the CLIMAX of our second "tight squeeze." It's the turning
point of the whole great work,
LISTEN! I wonder if you really understand WHY the very
work of GOD should be in such a life-and-death struggle,
financially---WHY we seem to come to crisis after crisis---WHY it's
still a struggle of desperation? Once again the situation is
ALARMING but WHY?
Let me tell you why. Let me tell you something you may not
quite understand about God, and the way God works in, and thru and
with us. Of course God could just rain down money from heaven for
us. WHY DOESN'T HE? God could give us easy going financially.
Some who do not understand God's PURPOSE, or His ways, may suppose
that the true work of GOD should never meet a crisis---that His
true called Minister should never have to send out letters
reminding God's people and Christ's Co-Workers of their
responsibility, and the work's need. Some not understanding, may
think that a work of FAITH ought never to have to ASK God's people
for money---but that it would somehow just come---abundantly and
easily---that our FAITH should never be tried or tested.
GOD DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! God is working out a purpose
here below. You Co-Workers and I have been specially called by the
very GOD OF HEAVEN, for a most important part in that purpose. God
is working out a very special purpose in you and in me---as
CO-WORKERS---as HIS INSTRUMENTS thru whom HE, the very ETERNAL,
carries out HIS work.
But LISTEN! God has never intended our lives, yielded to
Him for His service, to be a proverbial soft "bed of roses." God
has not intended our Christian lives in His service to run smooth
and easy, with no problems, no concerns. God intended---ORDAINED
---that we should be confronted with continual problems,
difficulties, troubles---that we should have to make constant
SACRIFICES, learning to give up our own ways and wants--even some
of our money, and the things we WANT to buy with it!
You know that Jesus said that it is the road that leads to
DESTRUCTION that is the EASY road, entered thru the WIDE gate. But