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Blessings Through Obedience, August 6
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Psalm 40:8
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What a God is our God! He rules over His kingdom with diligence and
care, and He has built a hedge—the Ten Commandments—about His subjects to
preserve them from the results of transgression. In requiring obedience to the laws
of His kingdom, God gives His people health and happiness, peace and joy. He
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teaches them that the perfection of character He requires can be attained only by
becoming familiar with His Word.
The true seeker, who is striving to be like Jesus in word, life, and character, will
contemplate his Redeemer and, by beholding, become changed into His image,
because he longs and prays for the same disposition and mind that was in Christ
Jesus.... He longs after God. The history of his Redeemer, the immeasurable
sacrifice that He made, becomes full of meaning to him. Christ, the Majesty of
heaven, became poor, that we through His poverty might become rich; not rich
merely in endowments, but rich in attainments.
These are the riches that Christ earnestly longs that His followers shall possess.
As the true seeker after the truth reads the Word and opens his mind to receive the
Word, he longs after truth with his whole heart. The love, the pity, the tenderness,
the courtesy, the Christian politeness, which will be the elements in the heavenly
mansions that Christ has gone to prepare for those that love Him, take possession
of his soul. His purpose is steadfast. He is determined to stand on the side of
righteousness. Truth has found its way into the heart, and is planted there by the
Holy Spirit, who is the truth. When truth takes hold of the heart, the man gives
sure evidence of this by becoming a steward of the grace of Christ.
Each steward has his own special work to do for the advancement of God’s
kingdom.... The talents of speech, memory, influence, property, are to accumulate
for the glory of God and the advancement of His kingdom. He will bless the right
use of His gifts.
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