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Saturday, November 22, 2014

 

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Letters To The Elect Of God
In A Time of Trouble


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GOD MAKES CHOICE OF THE HUMBLE


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If God made choice of the aristocracy, His purpose ("I will be exalted among the heathen") would not be accomplished. They are full of themselves. He chooses men who are empty of themselves, that they may be full of God. Poor men, in a day of evil, are the kind of material out of which He can provide the earthen vessels, in which His eternal treasure can be deposited, "that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of man."

But you say, "Such poor weak people as we, are not fit to be kings and priests." True: not as you are now, It is not as you are now that you will be elevated to the position. You will be changed from the mortal to the immortal, and this change will fit you in every way for what you will have to do. It will give you strength and grace and capacity and gladness of heart. You will be able to carry yourselves as kings, and to sustain yourselves without fatigue, and to bring the wisdom of Solomon to bear in the judgment of all matters you may have in charge. Qualification of this sort is all in God, who will liberally crown His children with the highest gifts, in the day of their exaltation. The one thing needful is a humble, loving, obedient heart, and pliant will, which can only be developed and put to the proof by the exercise of faith in a day like this; and the operation can only be successfully performed, in most cases, in circumstances of poverty and self-denial. Consequently, your lowly position and inefficient state, in stead of being a cause of dubitation, should help your confidence, as furnishing in your case, the likely elements of suitability for the glory to be revealed.

 

 

 

 


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