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Walking With Him in White, December 20
Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their
garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
Revelation 3:4
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Thank God, He can keep His people in a place where they shall not defile
their garments. If we submit to Christ, we shall be kept unspotted from the
world. “Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going
forth is prepared as the morning” (
Hosea 6:3
). We are to follow on. We are
not to rest content with the capabilities and the knowledge of today. All the
inhabitants of the universe are watching, as in these last days God is preparing
a people to stand in the judgment. Let us ask God to clothe us with the robe
of Christ’s righteousness, that we may be prepared for the coming of the Son
of man.
Of those who have not defiled their garments, Christ says, “They shall
walk with me in white: for they are worthy.” Through infinite sacrifice made
in our behalf, we may have an abundance of grace. God has a whole heaven
full for us. All He asks is that by living faith we receive His promises, saying:
“I do believe. I do accept the blessings which Thou hast for those who love
Thee.”
“He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I
will not”—oh, how precious is that “not”!—“I will not blot out his name out
of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before
his angels” (
Revelation 3:5
). When the gates of the city of God swing back
on their glittering hinges, and the nations who have kept the truth shall enter
in, Christ will be there to welcome us, to call us the blessed of the Father,
because we have overcome. He will welcome us before the Father, and before
His angels. As we enter the kingdom of God, there to spend eternity, the
trials and the difficulties and the perplexities that we have had here will sink
into insignificance. Our life will measure with the life of God.—
The General
Conference Bulletin, April 6, 1903
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