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The Power of God's Love

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto
thee. Job 22:21.

Said Jesus: "The Father himself loveth you." If our faith is fixed upon God,
through Christ, it will prove "as an anchor of the soul, both sure and
steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; whither the
forerunner is for us entered." It is true that disappointments will come;
tribulation we must expect; but we are to commit everything, great and
small, to God. He does not become perplexed by the multiplicity of our
grievances nor overpowered by the weight of our burdens. His watchcare
extends to every household and enriches every individual; He is concerned in
all our business and our sorrows. He marks every tear; He is touched with
the feeling of our infirmities. All the afflictions and trials that befall
us here are permitted, to work out His purposes of love toward us, "that we
might be partakers of his holiness," and thus become participants in that
fullness of joy which is found in His presence. . . .

The Bible in strongest terms sets before us the importance of obtaining a
knowledge of God. Says Peter: "Grace and peace be multiplied unto you
through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord." "His divine power hath
given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue." And the Scripture
bids us: "Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace."

God has commanded us, "Ye shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy";
and an inspired apostle declares that without holiness "no man shall see the
Lord." Holiness is agreement with God. By sin the image of God in man has
been marred and well-nigh obliterated; it is the work of the gospel to
restore that which has been lost; and we are to cooperate with the divine
agency in this work. And how can we come into harmony with God, how shall we
receive His likeness, unless we obtain a knowledge of Him? It is this
knowledge that Christ came into the world to reveal unto us.

The meager views which so many have had of the exalted character and office
of Christ have narrowed their religious experience and have greatly hindered
their progress in the divine life. Personal religion among us as a people is
at a low ebb. There is much form, much machinery, much tongue religion; but
something deeper and more solid must be brought into our religious
experience. . . . What we need is to know God and the power of His love, as
revealed in Christ, by an experimental knowledge. We must search the
Scriptures diligently, prayerfully; our understanding must be quickened by
the Holy Spirit, and our hearts must be uplifted to God in faith and hope
and continual praise (Testimonies, vol. 5, pp. 742-744).

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