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Man-Made Yokes, December 15
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members
of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
1
Corinthians 12:12
.
Soon the old year, with its burden of record, will have passed into eternity,
and the new year will have begun. Let us gather up the treasures of the past
year, and carry with us into the new year the remembrance of God’s goodness
and mercy. Let us brighten the future by the thought of past blessings.
“Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which
worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (
Philippians 2:12,
13
). We must cooperate with the Lord Jesus. Only thus shall we be able to
accomplish our part of the work. We are to hold fast to all we gain through
Christ.
O what wonderful advantages and opportunities there are for those who
wear Christ’s yoke! Our troubles come because we manufacture yokes for
ourselves, refusing to wear Christ’s yoke. He is our efficiency. He will give
us power. Our part is to plant our feet firmly on the platform of eternal truth;
then we may know that over us is the protection of God.
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ” (
Romans 5:1
). To be justified means to be pardoned. To
those whom God justifies He imputes Christ’s righteousness, for the Saviour
has taken away our sin. We stand before the throne of God justified and
sanctified. We are emptied of self, and, through the sanctification of the truth,
Christ abides in our hearts....
We are being tried and tested. May the Lord of heaven shut us in with
Him, that the wicked one may have no power over us....
Christ is the great Master Worker. We are laborers together with Him.
He has a right to give each one his work. And let each one be sure to do the
work given him. Let us do faithfully the work that the Lord has placed in our
minds. He who neglects his definite work for the work that some one else has
in charge is out of place. Time is lost, confidence abused and shaken, and the
work hindered. When we learn to attend closely to our own special work, the
Lord will help us, and all parts of His cause will move in harmony.—
Letter
202, December 15, 1902
, to “My Dear Brethren and Sisters.”
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