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Where Is Your Treasure?, December 7
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my
Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you.
John 14:1, 2
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How precious is the knowledge that we have a faithful Friend, One who will
impart to us a noble, elevated character that will fit us for the companionship of
the heavenly angels in the courts above! His guardianship is over all His children.
They have a peace that the world can neither give nor take away. The loss of
earthly treasures does not make them hopeless or homeless....
Christ beholds the world, full of activity in seeking for earthly treasures. He
sees many eagerly trying first one thing and then another in their efforts to obtain
the coveted earthly treasure, which they think will satisfy their selfish greed, while
in their eager pursuit they pass by the only path that leads to the true riches.
As One having authority Christ speaks to such ones, inviting them to follow
Him. He offers to lead them to the riches that are as enduring as eternity. He
points them to the narrow path of self-denial and sacrifice. Those who press on in
this path, surmounting every obstacle, will reach the land of glory. In lifting the
cross they find that the cross lifts them, and they will at last gain the imperishable
treasure.
Many think to find security in earthly riches. But Christ seeks to remove from
their eye the mote that obscures the vision, and thus enable them to behold the
far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. They are mistaking phantoms for
realities, and have lost sight of the glories of the eternal world. Christ calls upon
them to extend their view beyond the present and add eternity to their vision.—
Letter 264, December 7, 1903
, to a businessman of some means, 1-6.
There is no place on earth where treasure is secure from loss. But there is a
city that has foundations, whose builder and whose Maker is God. Christ seeks to
draw the attention away from unwise investments in perishable riches, warning
men to lay up their treasures in heaven.—;
Ibid., 8
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Those who have lavished their affection on earthly treasures without regard
to the heavenly riches will soon receive their reward. They will lose the earthly
treasures to obtain [that for] which they have sold their souls to Satan....
Will those who have not yet fully yielded themselves to the great rebel now
come over to the Lord’s side? Will they, before it is everlastingly too late,
leave the works of wickedness and stand under the bloodstained banner of Prince
Emmanuel?—;
Ibid., 6, 7
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