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Light for Those Who Love Light, July 30
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Psalm 97:11
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Christ has left His Holy Spirit to be His representative in the world, to
give celestial aid to every hungering, thirsting soul.... We are living in a
most solemn period of this world’s history, but light is shining for those
who will walk in the light....
There are many who have not had the light, and they are not judged
guilty. They mourn because of their human ignorance. They find nothing
satisfactory, and thirst for a knowledge of the only true God. They have an
ideal of God in their minds and they desire to find Him. He has entrusted
light to His people to give to all those who are praying for light. He has
sent forth His streams of salvation to refresh those who are athirst for a
knowledge of truth, virtue, and holiness. To such we should speak as did
the apostle Paul to the Athenians, “Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship,
him declare I unto you” (
Acts 17:23
). Heavenly inspiration has come to
men, and they have been entrusted with gospel truth, and have thereby been
weighted with a solemn responsibility to devote their God-given powers
to making God known to man. Christ says, “And this is life eternal, that
they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast
sent” (
John 17:3
)....
Those who have the mind of Christ will “walk even as he walked.”
They will live out the law of God, will feed upon Christ, be partakers of the
divine nature, and stand as living sentinels for truth. In integrity of heart
they will voice the cry, “Come out from among them, and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and
will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters ...” (
2
Corinthians 6:17, 18
)....
God gives light to those who love light. He imparts truth to those who
search for truth as for something of most precious value in order that they
may impart light to those who are in the valley and the shadow of death
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Letter 84, 1895
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