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Child Guidance
The living righteous are changed “in a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye.” At the voice of God they were glorified; now they are
made immortal and with the risen saints are caught up to meet their
Lord in the air. Angels “gather together His elect from the four winds,
from one end of heaven to the other.” Little children are borne by holy
angels to their mothers’ arms. Friends long separated by death are
united, nevermore to part, and with songs of gladness ascend together
to the City of God
The Day Long Hoped For—From the day when the first pair
turned their sorrowing steps from Eden, the children of faith have
waited the coming of the Promised One to break the destroyer’s power
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and bring them again to the lost Paradise
Heaven will be cheap enough if we obtain it through suffering....
As I saw what we must be in order to inherit glory, and then saw
how much Jesus had suffered to obtain for us so rich an inheritance,
I prayed that we might be baptized into Christ’s sufferings, that we
might not shrink at trials, but bear them with patience and joy, knowing
what Jesus had suffered that we through His poverty and sufferings
might be made rich
Heaven Is Worth Everything!—Heaven is worth everything to
us. We must not run any risk in this matter. We must take no venture
here. We must know that our steps are ordered by the Lord. May God
help us in the great work of overcoming. He has crowns for those that
overcome. He has white robes for the righteous. He has an eternal
world of glory for those who seek for glory, honor, and immortality.
Everyone who enters the City of God will enter it as a conqueror. He
will not enter it as a condemned criminal, but as a son of God. And
the welcome given to everyone who enters there will be, “Come, ye
blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world.”
Matthew 25:34
Partakers of Christ’s Joy—We see a retinue of angels on either
side of the gate; and as we pass in, Jesus speaks, “Come, ye blessed
of my Father, inherit the kingdom that is prepared for you from the
foundation of the world.” Here He tells you to be a partaker of His
15
The Great Controversy, 645
.
16
The Great Controversy, 299
.
17
Early Writings, 67
.
18
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 149
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