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trembling, “for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to
do of His good pleasure.” We have a high calling in Christ Jesus;
we are carrying forward a vast and holy work, and God calls upon
each one to uplift His standard in the sight of this world and of the
universe of heaven, by the power of the Lord Jehovah, in whom is
“everlasting strength.”
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We are to be one with Christ as He is one with the Father, and
the Father will love us as He loves His Son. We may have the same
help that Christ had, we may have strength for every emergency;
for God will be our front guard and our rearward. He will shut us
in on every side, and when we are brought before rulers, before the
authorities of the earth, we need not meditate beforehand of what
we shall say. God will teach us in the day of our need. Now may
God help us to come to the feet of Jesus and learn of Him, before
we seek to become teachers of others.—
The Review and Herald,
February 18, 1890
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The Preciousness of Christ to His Followers
[Special Testimonies, Series A 9:75-80 (1897).]
Cooranbong, Australia,
May 4, 1896
I felt sorry when I read your letter breathing so depressed a spirit.
Read
Ephesians 2:4-22
. This scripture has been given me for you.
Read it carefully, as you never read it before. It is full of instruction.
Christ dwelling in our hearts by faith means the contemplation of
Christ, beholding Christ, ever cherishing the dear Saviour as our
very best and honored Friend, so that we would not in any action
grieve and offend Him. We have always this promise to comfort and
help us: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God.”
Bear in mind, the time will never come when the hellish shadow
of Satan will not be cast athwart our pathway to obstruct our faith
and eclipse the light emanating from the presence of Jesus, the Sun
of Righteousness. Our faith must not stagger, but cleave through that