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To Walk Humbly PACIFIC UNION SEPTEMBER 2018 To Walk Humbly PERSPECTIVES ON CHRISTIAN HUMILITY FROM: Ricardo Graham Bradford Newton Steve Chavez Jesse Seibel Summer Camps and Communities Impacted by Fires PAGE 18 Careers in the Seventh-day Adventist Tradition. We all search for meaning in our work and aspire to a career where organizational values align with our own. If you are a healthcare professional seeking a faith- based employment experience where spirituality is put into practice, we invite you to connect with Loma Linda University Health. As a Seventh-day Adventist organization, with six hospitals and eight schools on our expansive Southern California campus, we offer a multitude of career paths and opportunities. Discover our mission of healing and join us. Learn more about us and explore our careers at: careers.llu.edu. MANY STRENGTHS. ONE MISSION. EEOC/M/F/D/V/AA PACIFIC UNION Recorder What’s inside 4 Justice, Mercy, and Humility (Part Three) Publisher 6 Walking with God Ray Tetz 10 Dear Brother and Sister Haskell Editor Alberto Valenzuela 12 Serving is Better than Superlatives Copy Editor 14 A Mission in Humility Julie Lorenz 18 Historically Large California Fires Impact Communities Across Design/Layout the Pacific Southwest Stephanie Leal • Alberto Valenzuela 22 Southern California Conference Printing Pacific Press Publishing Association 26 La Sierra University www.pacificpress.com 28 Adventist Health The Recorder is a monthly publication reaching approximately 76,000 Seventh-day Adventist 29 Pacific Union College homes in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah. 30 Arizona Conference Our mission is to inform, educate, and inspire our readers to action in all areas of ministry. 33 Nevada-Utah Conference EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS 36 Holbrook Indian School Adventist Health 916-781-4756 40 Central California Conference Jenni Glass • [email protected] 44 Southeastern California Conference Careers in the Seventh-day Arizona 480-991-6777 Phil Draper • [email protected] 48 Hawaii Conference Central California 559-347-3000 50 Northern California Conferencia Adventist Tradition. Cindy Chamberlin • [email protected] Hawaii 808-595-7591 54 Loma Linda University Health We all search for meaning in our work and aspire to a career where organizational Miki Akeo-Nelson • [email protected] 56 Pacific Union Conference Education values align with our own. If you are a healthcare professional seeking a faith- La Sierra University 951-785-2000 Darla Tucker • [email protected] 58 Community & Marketplace based employment experience where spirituality is put into practice, we invite you Loma Linda 909-651-5925 62 Sunset Calendar to connect with Loma Linda University Health. Ansel Oliver • [email protected] Nevada-Utah 775-322-6929 Faith Hoyt • [email protected] As a Seventh-day Adventist organization, with six hospitals and eight schools on Northern California 925-685-4300 Stephanie Leal • [email protected] our expansive Southern California campus, we offer a multitude of career paths and PACIFIC UNION SEPTEMBER 2018 Pacific Union College 707-965-6202 opportunities. Discover our mission of healing and join us. Larissa Church • [email protected] Southeastern California 951-509-2200 Enno Müller • [email protected] Southern California 818-546-8400 To Walk Lauren Armstrong • [email protected] Humbly PERSPECTIVES ON CHRISTIAN Postal Regs: The Pacific Union Recorder (ISSN 0744-6381), HUMILITY FROM: Ricardo Graham Volume 118, Number 9, is the official journal of the Pacific Bradford Newton Learn more about us and explore our careers at: Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and is Steve Chavez published monthly. Editorial office is at 2686 Townsgate Rd., Jesse Seibel Westlake Village, CA 91361: 805-497-9457. Periodical postage Part three of a three-part series from careers.llu.edu. paid at Thousand Oaks, CA, and additional mailing offices. Summer Camps Elder Ricardo Graham, president of and Communities Subscription rate: No charge to Pacific Union Adventist Impacted by Fires church members; $16 per year in U.S.; $20 foreign (U.S. the Pacific Union Conference, on the PAGE 18 funds); single copy, $2. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Circulation Department, Pacific Union Recorder, Box 5005, seminal words of Micah 6:8. Westlake Village, CA 91359. [email protected]. MANY STRENGTHS. ONE MISSION. EEOC/M/F/D/V/AA SEPTEMBER 2018 3 THE PRINCIPLED THING: Justice, Mercy, and Humility PART THREE By Ricardo Graham n our consideration of the powerful words the free gift of God, to be received by faith” of Micah 6:8, we come to the last of the (Steps to Christ, p. 61). Ithree characteristics, or “trilogy of re- Praise God! Hallelujah. A precious unpar- quirements,” that the prophet, speaking for alleled gift! While obedience is a requirement YAHWEH, urges upon his contemporaries. of God, we don’t earn anything by our obe- Though these are ancient words, I believe they dience. In faith, as we trust in Christ and are form the basis of what is non-negotiable with hidden in Him, the merits of His perfect life God. Remember: they are requirements. are accredited to the believer. “…And to walk humbly with your God.” Why obey then? I think it is a matter of, Some biblical commentators suggest that this among other things, allegiance and love. passage could have been translated “walk We show our allegiance to the true God of the obediently with your God.” universe by obeying His commands. The au- The prophet is speaking to a people who dience of the great controversy being played have been willfully disobedient to their Creator, out in this planet includes angels who are Liberator, and Sustainer. And in their disobe- present and observing, as well as beings on dience, they have misrepresented Him. In the un-fallen worlds. view of many, that misrepresentation of God Humble obedience is a token of our love continues to the present day, even though we and appreciation for the gift of salvation. It is are not living in a theocracy with a government a sign to the universe that we love God, who controlled by priests and prelates. sent His only begotten Son to die to redeem While obedience is required, we must us from sin. admit that however exacting our obedience My observation is that humility seems to may be, it is not enough to earn salvation. be a vanishing characteristic in our contem- Obedience as a “work” does not balance the porary society. I don’t intend to be judgmen- scales of any disobedience. tal, but so many in our Western society seem The apostle Paul reminds us: “For by to be about “spotlighting” themselves. When grace you have been saved through faith; and it comes to our walk with God, it isn’t about that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God” us: it is about Jesus. (Ephesians 2:8, NASB). Humility is just one of a plethora of hon- And Ellen White writes: “We do not earn orable, praiseworthy virtues embodied in the salvation by our obedience; for salvation is life of Jesus. 4 PACIFIC UNION RECORDER Just think: the God of Creation came as one of His always accepts my plea for forgiveness and encourages creatures, enshrined in fallen humanity. The Holy Son me to re-focus my mind on Him. of God was born into the family of a carpenter. What Years ago I heard this simple illustration used humiliation! by an evangelist: “Faith means Forsaking All, I Take Jesus revealed a constant and consistent pre- Him.” I believe that choosing to forsake all, includ- sentation of humility. I think that obedience—God ing self-interest, aligns us with God. God takes the pleasing—is facilitated by our humility. To be humble first step, and the next, and the next, and it always requires the first rule of discipleship: self-denial. (See facilitates this. All the way through, it is God work- Matthew 16:24.) ing in us. “For it is God which worketh in you both to Discipleship is, at its core, following and repro- will and to do of his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13, ducing the Christ-like life—following God without KJV). regard to self-interest. To be a disciple is to be a Christ To summarize this three-part series, I quote from follower. the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, volume 4, Jesus was focused on serving humanity—other page 1028: people, not Himself. He poured out His life as a “To do justly, and to love mercy” is to act with humble offering on the cross of Calvary and ended justice and kindness. These are manward virtues and that phase of His ministry by rising from the tomb. He sum up the intent of the second table of the Decalogue served until He died, and He continues to serve in the (see on Matt. 22:39, 40). “To walk courts of heaven as the Risen Lord! humbly with thy God” is to live in Not only that, God has gifted us for humble min- harmony with the principles of the istry or service. We all have been given gifts to use in first table of the Decalogue (see on humble ministry and service to others, in a reflection Matt. 22:37, 38). This is Godward of His ministry. virtue. Love expressed in action How are we to reach such an experience with God? with respect to God and to Glad you asked! our fellow men is “good;” it Paul wrote: “Let this mind be in you, which was is all that God requires, for also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, “love is the fulfilling of the thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made law” (Rom. 13:10). himself of no reputation, and took on him the form of We must do the right a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And thing, at the right time, for being found in fashion as a man, he humbled him- the right reasons.
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