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No Standing Still, June 2
To them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the
righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: grace and peace
be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus
our Lord.
2 Peter 1:1, 2
.
What a grand theme this is for contemplation—the righteousness of
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ! Contemplating Christ and His righ-
teousness leaves no room for self-righteousness, for the glorifying of self.
In this chapter there is no standstill. There is continual advancement in
every stage in the knowledge of Christ. Through the knowledge of Christ
is life eternal. In His prayer Jesus says, “This is life eternal, that they
might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent”
(
John 17:3
). In God we are to glory.... “But of him are ye in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification,
and redemption: that, according as it is written. He that glorieth, let him
glory in the Lord” (
1 Corinthians 1:30, 31
)....
We have been called to the knowledge of Christ, and that is to the
knowledge of glory and virtue. It is a knowledge of the perfection of
the divine character, manifested to us in Jesus Christ, that opens up to us
communion with God. It is by the great and precious promises that we are
to become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption
that is in the world through lust.
What possibilities are opened up to the youth who lay hold of the divine
assurances of God’s Word! Scarcely can the human mind comprehend
what is the breadth and depth and height of the spiritual attainments that
can be reached by becoming partakers of the divine nature. The human
agent who yields obedience to God, Who becomes a partaker of the divine
nature, finds pleasure in keeping the commandments of God, for he is one
with God; he holds as vital a relation with God as does the Son to the
Father
What privileges and blessings are granted to those who have obtained
like precious faith with the disciples of Christ! Nothing is withheld from
them
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2
The Youth’s Instructor, October 24, 1895.
3
The Youth’s Instructor, October 31, 1895
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