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Importance of Seeking True Knowledge
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heavens are higher than the earth. The mind is to be disciplined,
educated, and trained, for we are to do service for God in ways
that are not in harmony with inborn inclination. Hereditary and
cultivated tendencies to evil must be overcome. Often the education
and training of a lifetime must be discarded, that we may become
learners in the school of Christ.
Our hearts must be educated to become steadfast in God. We
are to form habits of thought that will enable us to resist temptation.
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We must learn to look upward. The principles of the Word of God—
principles that are as high as heaven, and that compass eternity—we
are to understand in their bearing upon our daily life. Every act,
every word, every thought, is to be in accord with these principles.
All must be brought into harmony with, and subject to, Christ.
The precious graces of the Holy Spirit are not developed in a
moment. Courage, fortitude, meekness, faith, unwavering trust in
God’s power to save, are acquired by the experience of years. By a
life of holy endeavor and firm adherence to the right, the children of
God are to seal their destiny.
No Time to Lose
We have no time to lose. We do not know how soon our probation
may close. At the longest, we have but a brief lifetime here, and we
do not know how soon the arrow of death may strike our hearts. We
do not know how soon we may be called to give up the world and all
its interests. Eternity stretches before us. The curtain is about to be
lifted. Soon the mandate will go forth for everyone now numbered
with the living: “‘He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; ... he who
is righteous, let him be righteous still; he who is holy, let him be
holy still.’”
Revelation 22:11
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Are we prepared? Have we become acquainted with God, the
Governor of heaven, the Lawgiver, and with Jesus Christ whom He
sent into the world as His representative? When our lifework is
ended, shall we be able to say, as did Christ our example: “‘I have
glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have
given Me to do. ... I have manifested Your name’”?
John 17:4-6
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The angels of God are seeking to attract us from ourselves and
from earthly things. May this work not be in vain.