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Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing
fruits, and now in one sentence He points out its source and its nature:
Be perfect as God is perfect. The law is but a transcript of the character
of God. Behold in your heavenly Father a perfect manifestation of the
principles which are the foundation of His government.
God is love. Like rays of light from the sun, love and light and joy
flow out from Him to all His creatures. It is His nature to give. His
very life is the outflow of unselfish love.
“His glory is His children’s good;
His joy, His tender Fatherhood.”
He tells us to be perfect as He is, in the same manner. We are to
be centers of light and blessing to our little circle, even as He is to
the universe. We have nothing of ourselves, but the light of His love
shines upon us, and we are to reflect its brightness. “In His borrowed
goodness good,” we may be perfect in our sphere, even as God is
perfect in His.
Jesus said, Be perfect as your Father is perfect. If you are the
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children of God you are partakers of His nature, and you cannot but be
like Him. Every child lives by the life of his father. If you are God’s
children, begotten by His Spirit, you live by the life of God. In Christ
dwells “all the fullness of the Godhead bodily” (
Colossians 2:9
); and
the life of Jesus is made manifest “in our mortal flesh” (
2 Corinthians
4:11
). That life in you will produce the same character and manifest
the same works as it did in Him. Thus you will be in harmony with
every precept of His law; for “the law of the Lord is perfect, restoring
the soul.”
Psalm 19:7
, margin. Through love “the righteousness of the
law” will be “fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
Spirit.”
Romans 8:4
.
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