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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea,
and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no
flesh should glory in His presence.” You have the example of Christ,
His unpretending life without display or grandeur. Is the servant
above
his Lord?
Dear sister, you have a good mind and can do good. You can be
as an anchor to your husband and a strength to many others. But if
you stand halting between two opinions, unreconciled to the humble
work of God, your influence in connection with your husband’s will
be exerted in a wrong direction. How reads the word of God? Turn
from the opinions of men to the law and to the testimony. Shut
out every worldly consideration. Make your decision for eternity.
Weigh evidence in this important time. We surely need not expect
to escape trial and persecution in following our Saviour; for this is
the salary of those who follow Him. He plainly declares that we
shall suffer persecution. Our earthly interests must be subservient to
the eternal. Listen to the words of Christ: “Then Peter began to say
unto Him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed Thee. And Jesus
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answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath
left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or
children, or lands, for My sake, and the gospel’s, but he shall receive
an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters,
and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the
world to come eternal life.” Eternal interests are here involved.
Do not flatter yourselves that if you should yield the truth all
obstacles to your acquiring property would be removed. Satan tells
you this; it is his sophistry. If God’s blessing rests upon you because
you surrender all to Him, you will prosper. If you turn from God, He
will turn from you. His hand can scatter faster than you can gather.
“What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose
his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
You, my dear sister, need a thorough conversion to the truth,
which shall slay self. Cannot you trust in God? Please read
Matthew
10:25-40
. Please read also, with a prayerful heart,
Matthew 6:24-34
.
Let these words impress your heart: “Take no thought for your life,
what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body,
what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body
than raiment?” The better life is here referred to. By the body is