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A Pillar in God’s Temple, December 23
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and
he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God,
and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which
cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him
my new name.
Revelation 3:12
.
It may seem wonderful to us that Christ should reveal Himself to John as
He is, strange that He should thus address Himself to the churches. But we
should remember that the church, enfeebled and defective though it is, is the
object of Christ’s supreme regard. Constantly He watches over it with tender
solicitude, and strengthens it by His Holy Spirit. Will we, as members of His
church, allow Him to impress our minds and to work through us to His glory?
Will we heed the messages He addresses to the church? Let us determine to
be among the number who shall meet Him with joy at His coming, and not
among those who “shall wail because of him” (
Revelation 1:7
). Let us make
certain our redemption by obeying the messages that He gives to His church.
Christ bears to the church the words of consolation: “Because thou hast
kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation,
which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy
crown. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God,
and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God,
and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh
down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name”
(
Revelation 3:10-12
).
Let us strive to obtain an abundant entrance into the kingdom of our Lord.
Let us diligently study the gospel that Christ came in person to present to
John on the Isle of Patmos—the gospel that is termed “The Revelation of
Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things
which must shortly come to pass” (
Revelation 1:1
). Let us remember always
that “blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy,
and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand”
(
verse 3
).—
Signs of the Times, February 4, 1903
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