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We Thank God for His Unspeakable Gift, August 19
Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
2 Corinthians 9:15
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What a terrible record the human race will have to meet in the last
day, since the vast majority of men have refused the priceless offering,—
rejected the richest gift that God could bestow upon the world. It is through
the inestimable gift of Christ that all our blessings come. Life, health,
friends, reason, happiness, are ours through the merit of Christ. O that the
young and the old might realize that all comes to them through the virtue
of Christ’s life and death, and acknowledge the ownership of God.
The apostle writes, “Ye are not your own.” Even when we were under
the control of a cruel master, even when the prince of darkness ruled our
spirits, the Lord Jesus Christ paid the ransom price of His own blood for
us.... Render to Him willing heart service, and no longer rob God of that
which is His own. “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” ...
Through His holy Word, through His providences, and through mes-
sages sent to you by His servants, Jesus is daily saying to you, “Behold,
I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the
door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” Jesus
has given His precious life for you, that you may become a partaker of the
divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through
lust. Then give yourself to Him as a pledge of grateful love. Were it not for
the love freely given us of Christ, we should now be in hopeless despair,
in spiritual midnight. Thank God every day that He gave us Jesus
The thought that Christ died to obtain for us the gift of everlasting
life, is enough to call forth from our hearts the most sincere and fervent
gratitude, and from our lips the most enthusiastic praise
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The Youth’s Instructor, April 26, 1894
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The Review and Herald, September 20, 1881
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