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A Heavenly Partnership, April 27
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he
may exalt you in due time.
1 Peter 5:6
.
All heaven enters into copartnership with those who come to Christ
for eternal life, submitting themselves to Him as those who have made
a surrender of all to God. God requires His servants to stand under the
blood-stained banner of Prince Emmanuel, striving in His power to keep
the principles of truth pure and uncorrupted. They must never step aside
from the path of self-denial and humility which every true Christian must
travel. As they thus cooperate with God, Christ is formed within, “the hope
of glory” (
Colossians 1:27
). Clad in His meekness and lowliness they find
their highest joy in doing His service. Earthly ambition gives way to a
desire to serve the Master.
“Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the
proud he knoweth afar off.” “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a
broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise” (
Psalm 138:6
;
51:17
). Those who reveal the meek and lowly spirit of Christ are tenderly
regarded by God. Nothing is unnoticed by Him. He marks their self-denial,
their effort to uplift Christ before the world. Though these humble workers
may be looked upon with scorn by the world, they are of great value in
the sight of God. Not only the wise, the great, the beneficent, will gain a
passport into the heavenly courts—not only the busy worker, full of zeal
and restless activity. No; the pure in heart, in whose lips there is found
no guile; the poor in spirit, who are actuated by the Spirit of an abiding
Christ; the peacemaker, whose highest ambition is to do God’s will—these
will gain an abundant entrance. They are God’s jewels, and will be among
that number of whom John writes, “I heard as it were the voice of a great
multitude, ... saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth”
(
Revelation 19:6
). They have washed their robes, and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb. “Therefore are they before the throne of God,
and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne
shall dwell among them” (
Revelation 7:15
)
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Ibid
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