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Choose Today to Serve Christ Always, June 1
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day
whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that
were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in
whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the
Lord.
Joshua 24:15
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We have been bought with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb
without blemish. What a price is this, unparalleled, infinite! But though
Christ has bought us, and invites us to come to Him, still the world holds
out its attractions to us, and strives for the mastery. Shall love for God,
or love for the world, triumph in the conflict? Satan and his evil angels
are watching at every avenue leading to the human heart, seeking to force
souls to accept evil suggestions. The enemy presents bribes to win us to
the world, as he presented bribes to Christ in the wilderness of temptation.
Unless we depend upon a power out of and above ourselves, the enemy will
succeed in accomplishing our ruin. But in looking to Jesus, by studying
His life and character, by earnestly desiring to be like Him, our minds will
be balanced in the right direction, that we may overcome selfishness, and
choose a course of righteousness....
I appeal to the youth: “Choose you this day whom ye will serve.”
There is a necessity for a decided choice; for Jesus said, “Ye cannot serve
God and mammon.” ...
If your heart is filled with love to Christ, it will be demonstrated that
He is stronger than the passions which have ruled you, whose indulgence
have undermined noble impulses, and left the soul to the mercy of Satan’s
temptations.... When the heart of the sinner is touched, he yields his
will to God’s will.... He sees in Jesus matchless charms, and his heart is
captivated
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The Youth’s Instructor, October 27, 1892
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