Chapter 270—Heirs of Immortality
Being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the
hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:7
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Every earnest petition for grace and strength will be answered.... Ask
God to do for you those things that you cannot do for yourselves. Tell Jesus
everything. Lay open before Him the secrets of your heart; for His eye
searches the inmost recesses of the soul, and He reads your thoughts as an
open book. When you have asked for the things that are necessary for your
soul’s good, believe that you receive them and you shall have them. Accept
His gifts with your whole heart; for Jesus has died that you might have the
precious things of heaven as your own.
The youth must not suppose that they can go on living careless and
indulgent lives, seeking no preparation for the kingdom of God, and yet in
time of trial be able to stand firm for the truth. They need to seek earnestly
to bring into their lives the perfection that is seen in the life of the Saviour,
so that when Christ shall come, they will be prepared to enter in through the
gates into the city of God. God’s abounding love and presence in the heart
will give the power of self-control and will mold and fashion the mind and
character. The grace of Christ in the life will direct the aims and purposes and
capabilities into channels that will give moral and spiritual power—power
which the youth will not have to leave in this world, but which they can carry
with them into the future life and retain through the eternal ages.
All heaven is interested in men and women whom God has valued so
much as to give His beloved Son to die to redeem them. No other creature
that God has made is capable of such improvement, such refinement, such
nobility as man. Then when men become blunted by their own debasing
passions, sunken in vice, what a specimen for God to look upon! Man cannot
conceive what he may be and what he may become. Through the grace of
Christ he is capable of constant mental progress. Let the light of truth shine
into his mind and the love of God be shed abroad in his heart and he may,
through the grace Christ has died to impart to him, be a man of power—a
child of earth but an heir of immortality.
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