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Instruments of Righteousness, November 18
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness
unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from
the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto
God.
Romans 6:13
.
The Lord has given you talents to use, and in using these talents as
He intended they should be used, you will have increased aptitude and
wisdom and clear spiritual eyesight to understand His work. Your mind
and eyes must watch for His appearing, your ears open to hear the faintest
whisperings of His voice. Your knees He has made; use them in kneeling
in prayer. He is your strength. By faith take hold of the Unseen. Let your
feet be shod with the preparation of the gospel for running obediently in
the way of His commandments. Your tongue and voice are a talent given
you of God to tell the story of His life, of His lessons, of His death, of His
resurrection, of His ascension. Your bodily strength is to be devoted to the
Master in fighting the good fight of faith on the battlefield, overcoming His
enemies with “It is written.” Your sympathies and energies belong to God.
Use them to glorify your Redeemer....
Cultivate the thought that you are not alone. All your steps are watched
by the Lord. You are encompassed with vigilant angels.... As the angels
ministered unto Jacob, so certainly will they minister unto all of the Lord’s
humble, contrite ones....
Reach up, higher and still higher, taking hold of one line of faith after
another. Walk and work in love to God and the poor oppressed ones, and
the Lord will be your helper. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye
shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending
upon the Son of man” (
John 1:51
). Jesus the precious Saviour, the Son of
the living God, is the ladder uniting the celestial world with the terrestrial.
His divinity lays hold of the throne of God. His humanity touches the earth.
His human arm encircles the entire human race. Through Jesus Christ the
angelic ministrations in love, in comfort, in reproof, in light, reach us. O
thank the Lord, for He is good, and His mercies endure forever
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Letter 152, 1896
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