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Matchless Love, July 12
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may
be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be
made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent
me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
John 17:22, 23
.
O what love, what matchless love! Fallen human beings may become
so closely united with Christ that they are glorified with Him. On this earth
they have followed in His footsteps, laboring as He labored for the souls for
whom He died, and when He comes to claim His own, they enter in to His
joy, sitting with Him at His table in His kingdom. “Where I am, “He says,
“there shall also my servant be” (
John 12:26
)....
What a wonderful thought it is that we, poor, fallen sinners, can become
one with Christ, partakers of His divine nature, through His grace refined,
purified, glorified. We may overcome, and sit down with ...Christ. We are
to be conformed to His image. He loves, and He will help us. We are to be
passive in His hands.
We have His promise. We hold the title deeds to real estate in the kingdom
of glory. Never were title deeds drawn up more strictly according to law, or
signed more legibly, than those that give God’s people a right to the heavenly
mansions. “Let not your heart be troubled,” Christ says: “ye believe in God,
believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not
so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and
prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that
where I am, there ye may be also” (
chap. 14:1-3
)....
All who will may come under the covenant promise. Precious is the price
paid for our redemption—the blood of the only begotten Son of God. Christ
was tried by the sharp proving of affliction. His human nature was tried to the
uttermost. He bore the death penalty of man’s transgression. He became the
sinner’s substitute and surety. He is able to show the fruit of His sufferings
and death, in His resurrection from the dead. From the rent sepulcher of
Joseph rings forth the proclamation, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those
who believe in Me, and do the works of righteousness that I do, are justified,
sanctified, made white and tried. They have obtained godliness and eternal
life.”—
Letter 144, July 12, 1903
, to Edson White.
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