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Our Glorious Work, August 29
Sing unto the Lord, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from
day to day. Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders
among all people.
Psalm 96:2, 3
.
The great and glorious work committed to us in acting a part in the plan
of salvation is wonderfully high and exalted. We cannot weigh its merits.
We are to walk by faith; and as we strive to appreciate the possibilities,
and realize the immensity of the plan of salvation, it is our privilege to
pray with the apostle Paul that we may be able to “comprehend with all
saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know
the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge” (
Ephesians 3:18
). Lift Him
up, the Man of Calvary. Let the mind dwell upon the beauties of His
character until by beholding you become changed into the same image. A
life of prayer and faith will lead us to speak of His praise and tell of His
power....
Genuine conversion will unite our hearts in faith and love. It will teach
us to hold fast our confidence in Him who is our only hope. By conversion
we join our weakness to God’s strength, our ignorance to His wisdom,
our unworthiness to His merits, our poverty to His boundless riches, our
helplessness to His enduring might.
We must search the Word of God, making it a part of ourselves. A
spirit of humility, the spirit of Christ, will help us to know Him who has
called us to glory and virtue.
If we brought the truth into the daily life as we should we would
advance higher and still higher, gaining a clearer and still clearer under-
standing of the revelation of God. We would lift Him up in songs of
praise. Through the psalmist Christ declared, “In the midst of the con-
gregation will I praise thee” (
Psalm 22:22
). His voice was the keynote
of the universe. His unconfined power, His unsearchable understanding,
His wonderful sacrifice for the human race, help us to comprehend the
love of God. We need individually to have Christ abiding in the soul. We
need to open our minds and hearts to the indwelling of the Spirit of truth.
We need to appreciate our privileges as the possessors of sacred, elevating
truth. Think of what this means to us—heirs of God and joint heirs with
Christ!
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