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Messages to Young People
“Beware of desperate steps; the darkest day, Wait but tomorrow,
will have passed away.” “In quietness and in confidence shall be
your strength.” Christ knows the strength of your temptations and
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the strength of your power to resist. His hand is always stretched
out in pitying tenderness to every suffering child. To the tempted,
discouraged one he says, Child for whom I suffered and died, cannot
you trust Me? “As thy days, so shall thy strength be.”
“Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He shall
bring it to pass.” ... He will be to you as the shadow of a great rock
in a weary land. He says, “Come unto Me, ... and I will give you
rest,”—rest that the world can neither give nor take away....
Words cannot describe the peace and joy possessed by him who
takes God at His word. Trials do not disturb him, slights do not vex
him. Self is crucified. Day by day his duties may become more taxing,
his temptations stronger, his trials more severe; but he does not falter;
for he receives strength equal to his need.—
The Youth’s Instructor,
June 26, 1902
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Cost of Victory
Christ sacrificed everything for man, in order to make it possible
for him to gain heaven. Now it is for fallen man to show what he
will sacrifice on his own account, for Christ’s sake, that he may win
immortal glory. Those who have any just sense of the magnitude of
salvation, and of its cost, will never murmur that their sowing must be
in tears, and that conflict and self-denial are the Christian’s portion in
this life.—
The Signs of the Times, March 4, 1880
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