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Heavenly Evaluation, April 2
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye
present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which
is your reasonable service.
Romans 12:1
.
There is a measurement of character constantly going on. The angels
of God are estimating your moral value, and ascertaining your needs, and
bearing your case to God. How earnestly we should strive to meet the mind
of the Spirit of God! And O, how thankful we should be that help has been
laid upon One who is mighty to save! ...
Do you manifest impatience, and utter hasty words? Are you full of
self-esteem? Have you lustful thoughts and practices? Are you doing things
directly contrary to the purposes of God? Are you robbing your heavenly
Father by withholding your talents and your heart from Him? Why not cease
doing this way? Why not make a full surrender to God? He will impart to you
His light and peace, and you will taste of His salvation. Do not any longer
bring to God a lame, diseased offering. Your powers, mental and physical,
are enfeebled by your own course of transgression; but such an offering is not
acceptable to heaven. Why not come and be healed of your infirmities, and
offer a living sacrifice, holy, and without blemish? Have you been robbing
God in tithes and offerings? Here is instruction for you. Says the Lord, “Bring
ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house,
and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the
windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room
enough to receive it” (
Malachi 3:10
). Why not take the Lord at His word? It
is our privilege to experience the joy of Christ.
It would be a difficult matter to convince those who have tasted of the
rich knowledge of Christ, that He is as a root out of dry ground, without
form or comeliness; and He may become to our souls “the chiefest among
ten thousand,” and the One “altogether lovely” (
Song of Solomon 5:10, 16
).
I love Him! I love Him! I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him
everything to be desired by the children of men. Let us come to the “Lamb of
God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (
John 1:29
). Let us, through
His merits and righteousness, obtain a fitting up for heaven. The broken and
contrite heart He will not despise.—
The Review and Herald, April 2, 1889
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