Basic HTML Version
God Fills Us With His Love, September 9
New wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
Luke 5:38
.
We should earnestly seek to know and appreciate the truth, that we
may present it to others as it is in Jesus. We need to have a correct estimate
of the value of our own souls; then we would not be as reckless in regard to
our course of action as at present. We would seek most earnestly to know
God’s way; ... and our constant prayer would be that we might have the
mind of Christ, that we might be molded and fashioned after His likeness.
It is in looking to Jesus and beholding His loveliness, having our eyes
steadfastly fixed upon Him that we become changed into His image....
The end is near! We have not a moment to lose! Light is to shine
forth from God’s people in clear, distinct rays, bringing Jesus before the
churches and before the world.... The instrumentalities to be used are
those souls who gladly receive the light of truth which God communicates
to them. These are God’s agencies for communicating the knowledge of
truth to the world. If through the grace of Christ His people will become
new bottles, He will fill them with the new wine. God will give additional
light, and old truths will be recovered, and replaced in the frame-work
of truth; and wherever the laborers go, they will triumph. As Christ’s
ambassadors, they are to search the Scriptures, to seek for the truths that
have been hidden beneath the rubbish of error. And every ray of light
received is to be communicated to others. One interest will prevail, one
subject will swallow up every other,—Christ our righteousness....
“I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righ-
teousness in the earth:
for in these things I delight
, saith the Lord.” This is
what needs to be brought into ... all our churches. God wants every soul
to turn to the first love. He wants all to have the gold of faith and love, so
that they can draw from the treasure to impart to others who need it
[260]
27
The Review and Herald Extra, December 23, 1890
.
268