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Life in God’s Word, January 15
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the
words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John 6:63
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Every seed has in itself a germinating principle. In it the life of the
plant is enfolded. So there is life in God’s Word. Christ says, “The
words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” ... In
every command and in every promise of the Word of God is the power,
the very life of God, by which the command may be fulfilled and the
promise realized. He who by faith receives the Word is receiving the
very life and character of God.
By partaking of this Word our spiritual strength is increased; we
grow in grace and in a knowledge of the truth. Habits of self-control
are formed and strengthened. The infirmities of childhood—fretfulness,
willfulness, selfishness, hasty words, passionate acts—disappear, and in
their place are developed the graces of Christian manhood and woman-
hood.
In its power, men and women have broken the chains of sinful habit.
They have renounced selfishness. The profane have become reverent,
the drunken sober, the profligate pure. Souls that have borne the likeness
of Satan have been transformed into the image of God.
Would you become assimilated to the divine image? ... Would you
drink of the water which Christ shall give you, which shall be in you a
well of water springing up into everlasting life? Would you bear fruit to
the glory of God? Would you refresh others? Then with heart hungering
for the bread of life, the Word of God, search the Scriptures, and live
by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Your soul’s
sanctification and righteousness will result from faith in the Word of
God, which leads to obedience of its commands. Let the Word of God
be to you as the voice of God instructing you, and saying, “This is the
way, walk ye in it.”
Isaiah 30:21
. Christ prayed, “Sanctify them through
thy truth: thy word is truth.”
John 17:17
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