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Secret of Sanctification, February 26
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath
shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of
God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:6
.
Christ commissions us to shine as lights in the world, by reflecting the
light of God as seen in the face of Jesus Christ. Who among us is doing this?
Are our lives all aglow with this wondrous light? God expects every one of
us to reflect His image to the world. We have been led on step by step to
make advancement. We have walked and worked by faith, and we need to
discipline ourselves to endure hardship as good soldiers of Jesus Christ.
We want good, strong minds that are not easily discouraged, minds that
are educated to grapple with the difficulties we shall meet, and wrestle with
and conquer hard problems. We must lift the standard of truth in the towns
and cities around us. We must see what is to be done and do it in the love
and fear of God. When we have gone just as far as we can by faith, then the
Lord will undertake in our behalf. It is God who has inspired us to commence
this work. We have gone forward step by step, praying, believing, working.
God is the author of our faith, and when we each act our individual part, He
perfects the work, glorifying His own name in the finishing of it. The Lord
inspires His consecrated workmen to work not from what they see but from
what the Lord sees.
We need to strengthen our souls with hope, the twin sister of faith. God’s
workers must live in perfect submission to the will of God. There is danger of
working at cross purposes with God, for man wants to work his way, which
he supposes is the very best way in which to bring about the purposes of God.
But we cannot have our own way and will. God must work in us and by us
and through us. We are to be in the hands of God as clay in the hands of the
potter, for Him to mold after the divine similitude.
Our hearts need to be wholly sanctified to God. Let us not seek to retain
our own way and will. God has given us His truth, that it may sanctify, refine,
and ennoble the whole man. “This is the will of God” concerning you, He
said, “even your sanctification” (
1 Thessalonians 4:3
). “His divine power
hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue” (
2 Peter 1:3
).—
Manuscript 70, February 26, 1899
, “Laborers Together With God”
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