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Source of All Life, June 7
For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
Psalm 36:9
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All created beings live by the will and power of God. They are
dependent recipients of the life of God. From the highest seraph to the
humblest animate being, all are replenished from the Source of life.
The youth need to understand the deep truth underlying the Bible
statement that with God “is the fountain of life.” Not only is He the
originator of all, but He is the life of everything that lives. It is His life
that we receive in the sunshine, in the pure, sweet air, in the food which
builds up our bodies and sustains our strength. It is by His life that we
exist, hour by hour, moment by moment. Except as perverted by sin, all
His gifts tend to life, to health and joy.
A mysterious life pervades all nature—a life that sustains the un-
numbered worlds throughout immensity, that lives in the insect atom
which floats in the summer breeze, that wings the flight of the swallow
and feeds the young ravens which cry, that brings the bud to blossom
and the flower to fruit.
The same power that upholds nature, is working also in man.... The
laws that govern the heart’s action, regulating the flow of the current
of life to the body, are the laws of the mighty Intelligence that has the
jurisdiction of the soul. From Him all life proceeds. Only in harmony
with Him can be found its true sphere of action. For all the objects of
His creation the condition is the same—a life sustained by receiving
the life of God, a life exercised in harmony with the Creator’s will. To
transgress His law, physical, mental, or moral, is to place one’s self out
of harmony with the universe....
To him who learns thus to interpret its teachings, all nature becomes
illuminated; the world is a lesson book, life a school. The unity of man
with nature and with God, the universal dominion of law, the results
of transgression, cannot fail of impressing the mind and molding the
character.
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