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Never Go Back on Your Commitment, March 19
Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we
faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men,
especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
Galatians 6:9, 10
.
Let not those who have made pledges to carry on the work of God repent
of their vows, and withhold that which they have given. Those who have taken
upon themselves the responsibility of annulling a pledge that has been made to
God are assuming to do that for which they will not care to account in the day of
final reckoning. The counsel of men who would at this time advise that means
be withheld from the cause of God and invested in other enterprises should be
rejected, for the Lord says to you, “Lay up your treasure in heaven.” “Invest your
means to advance My work, to open new fields, that the light of present truth may
shine to all parts of the world.”
How munificent was the Gift that God gave to the human race. He “so loved
the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life” (
John 3:16
). The Lord Jesus gave His
life for the world, that man might have a perfect example. Laying off His royal
robe and kingly crown, He came to earth as a man. He was tempted in all points
as man is tempted, but not once did He fail to follow the path He had chosen. He
was kept by the power of God, upheld by the One who will be the helper of all
who love Him and keep His commandments.
Christ lived the simple life of a poor man’s son, and thus became acquainted
with the childhood life of the poor. And when, during His ministry, children were
brought to Him that He might bless them, He thought of the mother who gave
Him birth, and honored the mothers of these children, blessing them and their
children also. Christ gave Himself to a life of humiliation and poverty, that He
might be able, from childhood to manhood, to leave to all an example of what life
should mean to every member of the human family.
All who have become children of God are to do all in their power to seek
and to save the lost sheep. They are to make use of every possible means to give
sinners the word of life and the saving grace of Christ. Believers in the truth are
ever to remember the sacrifice that Christ made in order that He might, in taking
humanity, be an example to all human beings.—
Letter 104, March 19, 1907
, to
“Those Making Large Gifts to the Cause of Present Truth.”
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