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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
in Christ Jesus.” We should educate ourselves to believe in the word
of God which is being so wonderfully and gloriously fulfilled. If we
have the full assurance of faith, we will not indulge in doubting our
brethren and sisters.
Character of Christ
We are privileged to see Jesus as He is, to know Him as One
who is full of compassion, courteousness, and divine politeness. He
is good and merciful, and will forgive our sins. Of Him it is written:
“Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His
brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in
things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the
people. For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is
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able to succor them that are tempted.”
We should cherish love and gratitude, we should look unto Jesus
and become transformed into His image. The result of this will
be increased confidence, hope, patience, and courage. We shall be
drinking of the water of life of which Christ spoke to the woman of
Samaria. He said: “If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that
saith to thee, Give Me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of Him,
and He would have given thee living water.... Whosoever drinketh
of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that
I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into
everlasting life.” This water represents the life of Christ, and every
soul must have it by coming into living connection with God. Then
blessed, humble, grateful confidence will be an abiding principle in
the soul. Unbelieving fear will be swept away before living faith.
We shall contemplate the character of Him who first loved us.
By contemplation of God’s matchless love, we take upon us His
nature. Christ was a representative before men and before angels, of
the character of the God of heaven. He demonstrated the fact that
when humanity depends wholly upon God, men may keep God’s
commandments and live, and His law be as the apple of the eye.
Those who inquire after the way of life need not be rich, need not
be wise, learned, or honored; yet God will quicken their perceptions
so that they may understand what they may do to be saved. The
light of heaven is shining upon the earth from the throne of God,