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Enlightened To Full Radiance, November 11
If we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the
morning.
Hosea 6:3
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We are living amid the perils of the last days, and we are to cleanse ourselves
from all defilement, and put on the robe of Christ’s righteousness. The work of
God is to be steadily carried forward. We are to bring ourselves, body, soul, and
spirit, into subjection to Christ. Unless we do this, the health of both body and
soul will be endangered.
God desires His workers to gain daily an understanding of how to reason
logically from cause to effect, arriving at wise, safe conclusions. He desires them
to add to the strength of the memory. We cannot afford to make mistakes. As
little children we are to sit at the feet of Christ, learning of Him how to work
successfully. We are to ask God for sound judgment, and for light to impart to
others. There is need of knowledge that is the fruit of experience. We should not
allow a day to pass without gaining an increase of knowledge in temporal and
spiritual things. We are to plant no stakes that we are not willing to take up and
plant farther on, nearer the heights we hope to ascend.
The highest education is to be found in training the mind to advance day to
day. The close of each day should find us a day’s march nearer the overcomer’s
reward. Day by day our understanding is to ripen. Day by day we are to work
out conclusions that will bring a rich reward in this life, and in the life to come.
Looking daily to Jesus, instead of to what we ourselves have done, we shall make
decided advancement in temporal as well as spiritual knowledge.
The end of all things is at hand. What we have done must not be allowed
to place the period to our work. The Captain of our salvation says, “Advance.
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The night cometh, in which no man can work.” Constantly we are to increase in
usefulness. Our lives are always to be under the power of Christ. Our lamps are to
be kept burning brightly.
Prayer is a heaven-ordained means of success. Appeals, petitions, entreaties,
between man and man, move men, and act as a part in controlling the affairs of
nations. But prayer moves heaven. That power alone that comes in answer to
prayer will make men wise in the wisdom of heaven, and enable them to work
in the unity of the Spirit, joined together by the bonds of peace. Prayer, faith,
confidence in God, bring a divine power that sets human calculations at their real
worth—nothingness....
He who places himself where God can enlighten him advances, as it were,
from the partial obscurity of dawn to the full radiance of noonday.
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