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Have You Enrolled?, February 22
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
Proverbs 23:26
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Dear youth, the very best thing you can do is to enlist freely and
decidedly in the army of the Lord. Surrender yourself into the hands of
God, that your will and ways may be guided by the One who is unerring in
wisdom and infinite in goodness. To withhold yourself from God is to rob
God of that which is His own. The Lord hath need of you, and you have
need of the Lord. It is not safe for you to put off the decisive step, or delay
the matter of making a complete surrender of yourself to God. If you have
not already given yourself to God, I beseech you to do it now. Let your
name be enrolled in the heavenly records as one of the chosen and elect of
God....
“God so loved the world, the he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”
(
John 3:16
).... It is through the inestimable gift of Christ that all our
blessings come. Life, health, friends, reason, happiness, are ours through
the merit of Christ. O that the young and the old might realize that all comes
to them through the virtue of Christ’s life and death, and acknowledge the
ownership of God....
Even when we were under the control of a cruel master, even when the
prince of darkness ruled our spirits, the Lord Jesus Christ paid the ransom
price of His own blood for us. You have been bought with a price, even
with the precious blood of Christ; you are His property, therefore glorify
God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s....
Were it not for the love freely given us of Christ, we should now be
in hopeless despair, in spiritual midnight. Thank God every day that He
gave us Jesus. Will you not accept His gift? Will you not be His witness?
Time is short, and it becomes you to work while the day lasts, living an
imperishable life, hiding your life with Christ in God. Then “when Christ,
who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory”
(
Colossians 3:4
)
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The Youth’s Instructor, September 5, 1895
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