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Promises to those Who Obey, January 18
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my
covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all
people: for all the earth is mine.
Exodus 19:5
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This pledge was given not only to Israel but to all who are obedient to
God’s Word. Those who live amid the perils of the last days may realize
that just as at the beginning of their experience the truth united them to
the Saviour, so He who is the author and finisher of their faith will perfect
the work He has begun for them. God is faithful, by whom we are called
to fellowship with His Son. As men and women cooperate with God
in doing the work He has given them, they go forward from strength to
greater strength. As they exercise simple faith, believing day by day that
God will not fail to establish them in Christ, God says to them as He did
to ancient Israel: “Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the
Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above
all people that are upon the face of the earth.”
Deuteronomy 7:6
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Thus God is able and willing to lead all who will be led. He desires to
teach each one a lesson of constant trust, unwavering faith, and unques-
tioning submission. He says to each one, I am the Lord thy God. Walk
with Me, and I will fill thy path with light....
But God requires obedience to all His commands. The only way in
which it is possible for men to be happy is by rendering obedience to the
laws of God’s kingdom.
Life, with its privileges and endowments, is God’s gift. Let us re-
member that all we have comes from God, and is to be wholly and freely
consecrated to Him. Paul declares, “I count all things but loss for the
excellency of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss
of all things, and do count them but dung that I may win Christ, and be
found in him, not having mine own righteousness, but the righteousness
which is of God by faith.”
Philippians 3:8
. The sacrifice of our ideas, our
will, is necessary if we would be one with Christ in God. All we have and
are must be laid at Christ’s feet.
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