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Glorious Possibilities Before Us, May 8
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 2:5
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How glorious are the possibilities set before the fallen race! Through
His Son, God has revealed the excellency to which man is capable of
attaining. Through the merits of Christ man is lifted from his depraved
state, purified, and made more precious than the golden wedge of Ophir.
It is possible for him to become a companion of the angels in glory, and
to reflect the image of Jesus Christ.... Yet how seldom he realizes to what
heights he could attain if he would allow God to direct his every step!
God permits every human being to exercise his individuality. He desires
no one to submerge his mind in the mind of a fellow mortal. Those who
desire to be transformed in mind and character are not to look to men, but
to the divine Example. God gives the invitation, “Let
this mind
be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus.” By conversion and transformation men
are to receive the mind of Christ. Every one is to stand before God with an
individual faith, an individual experience, knowing for himself that Christ
is formed within, the hope of glory....
As our example we have One who is all and in all, the Chiefest among
ten thousand, One whose excellency is beyond comparison. He graciously
adapted His life for universal imitation. United in Christ were wealth
and poverty; majesty and abasement; unlimited power, and meekness and
lowliness, which in every soul who receives Him will be reflected....
O that we might more fully appreciate the honor Christ confers upon
us! By wearing His yoke and learning of Him, we become like Him in
aspiration, in meekness and lowliness, in fragrance of character, and unite
with Him in ascribing praise and honor and glory to God as supreme.
Those who live up to their high privileges in this life will receive an eternal
reward in the life to come. If faithful we shall join the heavenly musicians
in singing with sweet accord songs of praise to God and to the Lamb
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