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Testimonies for the Church Volume 2
upon the throne of God, you aid others to fix their trembling faith
upon His promises and His eternal throne. The position you must
come into is to value salvation dearer than earthly gain, to count
everything but loss that you may win Christ. The consecration on
your part must be entire. God will admit of no reserve, of no divided
sacrifice; you can cherish no idol. You must die to self and to the
world. Renew your consecration to God daily. Everlasting life is
worth a lifelong, persevering, untiring effort.
I was shown that your brother had been convinced of the truth for
some time, but influences had held him back. His wife had hindered
him from obeying his convictions. But in her affliction she sought
the Lord, and He was found of her. Then she felt an anxiety that
her husband should embrace the truth; she repented that she had
opposed him, that her pride and love of the world had so long kept
him from receiving the truth. Like a weary child in search of rest
but unable to obtain it, she at length complied with the gracious
invitation: “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden,
and I will give you rest.” Her weary, burdened soul sought her Lord,
and with repentance, humiliation, and earnest prayer she cast her
burden upon the great Burden Bearer, and in Him found rest; she
received the evidence that her humiliation and earnest repentance
were accepted of God, and that for Christ’s sake He had forgiven
her sins.
I was shown, Brother D, that you have but a short time to work.
Do up your work thoroughly, redeem the time. In your business
transactions let not a blot tarnish your Christian character. Keep your
garments unspotted from the world. Watch and pray, lest you enter
into temptation. Temptations may be all around you, but you are not
compelled to enter into them. You may obtain strength from Christ
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to stand unsullied amid the pollutions of this corrupt age. “Whereby
are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust.” Keep the eye steadily
fixed upon Christ, upon the divine image. Imitate His spotless life,
and you will be a partaker of His glory, and with Him inherit the
kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
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