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Messages to Young People
yourself that has brought you into this unenviable position. You must
win back your confidence in God and in your brethren. It is for you to
yield up your will to the will of Jesus Christ; and as you do this, God
will immediately take possession, and work in you to will and to do of
His good pleasure. Your whole nature will then be brought under the
control of the Spirit of Christ; and even your thoughts will be subject
to Him.
You cannot control your impulses, your emotions, as you may
desire, but you can control the will, and you can make an entire change
in your life. By yielding up your will to Christ, your life will be
hid with Christ in God, and allied to the power which is above all
principalities and powers. You will have strength from God that will
hold you fast to His strength; and a new light, even the light of living
faith, will be possible to you. But your will must co-operate with God’s
will, not with the will of associates through whom Satan is constantly
working to ensnare and destroy you.
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Will you not, without delay, place yourself in right relation to
God? Will you not say, “I will give my will to Jesus, and I will do it
now,” and from this moment be wholly on the Lord’s side? Disregard
custom, and the strong clamoring of appetite and passion. Give Satan
no chance to say, “You are a wretched hypocrite.” Close the door,
so that Satan will not thus accuse and dishearten you. Say, “I will
believe, I do believe that God is my helper,” and you will find that you
are triumphant in God. By steadfastly keeping the will on the Lord’s
side, every emotion will be brought into captivity to the will of Jesus.
You will then find your feet on solid rock. It will take, at times, every
particle of will-power that you possess, but it is God that is working
for you, and you will come forth from the molding process a vessel
unto honor.
God’s Will and Man’s Will United
Talk faith. Keep on God’s side of the line. Set not your foot on the
enemy’s side, and the Lord will be your Helper. He will do for you
that which it is not possible for you to do for yourself. The result will
be that you will become like a “cedar of Lebanon.” Your life will be
noble, and your works will be wrought in God. There will be in you a