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Each Victory Makes the Following Easier, December 11
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that
loved us.
Romans 8:37
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The work is before you to improve the remnant of your life in reforming
and elevating the character. A new life begins in the renewed soul. Christ is
the indwelling Saviour. That which may be regarded as hard to give up must
be yielded. The overbearing, dictatorial word must be left unspoken; then a
precious victory will be gained.
True happiness will be the result of every self-denial, every crucifixion of
self. One victory won, the next is more easily gained. Had Moses neglected
the opportunities and privileges granted him of God, he would have neglected
the light from heaven and would have been a disappointed, miserable man.
Sin is from beneath; and when it is indulged, Satan is enshrined in the soul,
there to kindle the very fires of hell. God has not given His law to prevent
the salvation of souls, but He wants all to be saved. Man has light and
opportunities, and if he will improve them he may overcome. You may show
by your life the power of the grace of God in overcoming.
Satan is trying to set up his throne in the soul-temple. When he reigns he
makes himself heard and felt in angry passions, in words of bitterness that
grieve and wound; but as light has no communion with darkness, and Christ
no union with Belial, the man must be wholly for one or the other. In yielding
to self-indulgence, avarice, deception, fraud, or sin of any kind, he encourages
the principles of Satan in his soul and closes the door of heaven to himself.
Because of sin, Satan was thrust out of heaven; and no man indulging and
fostering sin can go to heaven, for then Satan would again have a foothold
there.
When a man is earnestly engaged day by day in overcoming the defects
in his character, he is cherishing Christ in his soul-temple; the light of Christ
is in him. Under the bright beams of the light of Christ’s countenance his
entire being becomes elevated and ennobled.—
Testimonies for the Church
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