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Feed on the Bread of Life, April 5
My Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
John 6:32
.
We are baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,
and these three great, infinite powers are unitedly pledged to work in our behalf if
we will cooperate with them. We are buried with Christ in baptism as an emblem of
His death.
We are raised from the water as an emblem of His resurrection. We are to live
as newborn souls, that we may be raised at the last great day.... You are pledged to
live in newness of life; for you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. “If
ye then be risen with Christ,
seek those things which are above
, where Christ sitteth
on the right hand of God.” This is where you are to place your treasure. Finite man
cannot do your believing. Come to the great source of power for your strength.
Christ’s prayer on the banks of the Jordan includes everyone who will believe in
Him. The promise that you are accepted in the Beloved comes to you. Hold it with
the grip of unyielding faith. God said, “This is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well
pleased
.” This means that through the dark shadow which Satan has thrown athwart
your pathway Christ has cleaved the way for you to the throne of the infinite God.
He has laid hold of almighty power, and you are accepted in the Beloved.
In every respect you are to honor God by being partakers of His divine nature
that you may have the assurance of sins pardoned which would testify of the love
of God. But there is not in our experience that pleasantness and joyousness that
there should be. Christ says that if
He
is in us,
our joy will be full
. Let us then be
partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world
through lust. Let us not, by living inconsistent, earthly, sensual lives, heap reproach
upon Christ. Let us rise above the malarious atmosphere that pervades the world,
and breathe the breath of God. Let us feed upon the bread of life.
Christ declares that if we eat
His
flesh and drink
His
blood, we shall have eternal
life. His word will be to us as the leaves of the tree of life if we will believe in Christ
as our personal Saviour. If we eat the bread that came down from heaven, we shall
have a live connection with God. We shall bring eternity into our reckoning. We
shall live as in the presence of the whole heavenly host. The angels are watching
and guarding us.
God loves us, but we fail to cherish that love. We are losing in spirituality. God
wants us to recognize His ownership in every human being. He has His claims.
They are mine, He says. I have bought them with a
price
. “Ye are not your own....
Therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” Will you
do this? Will you pray in faith? Will you honor Christ by taking Him at His word?
(
Manuscript144, 1901
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