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Developing Good Habits, May 26
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy
word.
Psalm 119:101
.
We are nearing the end of time, and we want now, not to meet the
world’s tastes and practices, but to meet the mind of God; to see what
saith the Scriptures, and then to walk according to the light which God
has given us.
The youth are forming habits which will, in nine cases out of ten,
decide their future. The influence of the company they keep, the asso-
ciations they form, and the principles they adopt will be carried with
them through life.
We shall be individually, for time and eternity, what our habits make
us. The lives of those who form right habits, and are faithful in the
performance of every duty, will be as shining lights, shedding bright
beams upon the pathway of others.
There is no need of being spiritual dwarfs if the mind is continually
exercised in spiritual things. But merely praying for this, and about this,
will not meet the necessities of the case. You must habituate the mind to
concentration upon spiritual things. Exercise will bring strength. Many
professed Christians are in a fair way to lose both worlds. To be half a
Christian and half a worldly man makes you about one-hundredth part a
Christian and all the rest worldly.
The mind must be educated and disciplined to love purity. A love for
spiritual things should be encouraged; yea, must be encouraged, if you
would grow in grace and in the knowledge of the truth.... The will must
be exercised in the right direction. I
will
be a whole-hearted Christian. I
will
know the length and breadth, the height and depth, of perfect love.
Listen to the words of Jesus: “Blessed are they which do hunger and
thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”
Matthew 5:6
. Ample
provisions are made by Christ to satisfy the soul that hungers and thirst
for righteousness.
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