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Messages to Young People
Cultivate Every Grace of Character
Be ambitious, for the Master’s glory, to cultivate every grace of
character. In every phase of your character building you are to please
God. This you may do; for Enoch pleased Him, though living in a
degenerate age. And there are Enochs in this our day.
Stand like Daniel, that faithful statesman, a man whom no tempta-
tion could corrupt. Do not disappoint Him who so loved you that He
gave His own life to cancel your sins. He says, “Without Me ye can do
nothing.” Remember this. If you have made mistakes, you certainly
gain a victory if you see these mistakes, and regard them as beacons of
warning. Thus you turn defeat into victory, disappointing the enemy,
and honoring your Redeemer.
A character formed according to the divine likeness is the only
treasure that we can take from this world to the next. Those who are
under the instruction of Christ in this world will take every divine
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attainment with them to the heavenly mansions. And in heaven we are
continually to improve. How important, then, is the development of
character in this life.
His Biddings Are Enablings
The heavenly intelligences will work with the human agent who
seeks with determined faith that perfection of character which will
reach out to perfection in action. To every one engaged in this work
Christ says, I am at your right hand to help you.
As the will of man co-operates with the will of God, it becomes
omnipotent. Whatever is to be done at His command, may be ac-
complished in His strength. All His biddings are enablings.—
Christ’s
Object Lessons, 331-333
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Our Constant Dependence
Those who fail to realize their constant dependence upon God
will be overcome by temptation. We may now suppose that our feet
stand secure, and that we shall never be moved. We may say with
confidence, “I know in whom I have believed; nothing can shake my
faith in God and in His word.” But Satan is planning to take advantage
of our hereditary and cultivated traits of character, and to blind our eyes