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We Must Constantly Look to Jesus, November 25
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.
Hebrews 12:2
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Many of the youth repine because they have not ability to do some
large work, and they covet talents by which they might do some wonderful
things; but while they are spending their time in vain desires, they are
making a failure of life. They are overlooking opportunities which they
might improve in doing deeds of love in the path of life in which their feet
are set....
O that you would now consider the things that make for your peace,
and devote your affections, your thoughts, your time, your service, to
Christ. Satan is concentrating all his energies to bend your will to his, to
make you his agent in opposing the plans of Christ, that you may refuse
to have Jesus reign over you. Although you know that “God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life,” Satan ... will seek to draw
you away from Christ, that you may become his agent in drawing others
away, and thus frustrate the plans of God. He is the father of lies, and he
weaves a net of falsehood in which he binds you with cords of lies to his
service. The more intelligent you are, the more attractive, the harder he
will work that he may persuade you to lay your talents at his feet, and aid
him to accomplish his ends in alluring others under his black banner. If he
can only keep the mind infatuated, he will do it. Paul inquires, “Who hath
bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth?” Satan is the bewitcher,
and he has wrought, that Christ may be expelled from the soul, and that he
himself may be there enthroned.
I beg of you, sons and daughters, to break from the infatuation of the
evil one. Flee to Jesus as your refuge, and lay hold upon eternal life
Each day be determined that you will keep nigh to God, looking unto
Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith
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The Youth’s Instructor, March 2, 1893
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The Youth’s Instructor, July 19, 1894
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