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I Press Toward the Mark, December 31
All Life’s Expiriences Will Be Made Plain
This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and
reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward
the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13, 14
Another year of your life closes today. How can you look back upon
it? Have you made advancement in the divine life? Have you increased
in spirituality? Have you crucified self, with the affections and lusts?
Have you an increased interest in the study of God’s Word? Have you
gained decided victories over your own feelings and waywardness? Oh,
what has been the record of your life for the year which has now passed
into eternity, never to be recalled?
As you enter upon a new year, let it be with an earnest resolve to
have your course onward and upward. Let your life be more elevated
and exalted than it has hitherto been. Make it your aim not to seek your
own interest and pleasure, but to advance the cause of your Redeemer.
Remain not in a position where you ever need help yourself, and where
others have to guard you to keep you in the narrow way. You may be
strong to exert a sanctifying influence upon others. You may be where
your soul’s interest will be awakened to do good to others, to comfort
the sorrowful, strengthen the weak, and to bear your testimony for Christ
whenever opportunity offers. Aim to honor God in everything, always
and everywhere. Carry your religion into everything.
Prepare for eternity with such a zeal as you have not yet manifested.
Educate your mind to love the Bible, to love the prayer meeting, to
love the hour of meditation, and, above all, the hour when the soul
communes with God. Become heavenly-minded if you would unite with
the heavenly choir in the mansions above....
A new page is turned in the book of the recording angel.... Let a
record be stamped there which you will not be ashamed to have revealed
to the gaze of men and angels.
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