| The Joy of Service |
Chapter 19 |
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We must remember, too, that every thought, feeling, and desire, every play of emotion, every decision, and every motive cherished, does its part in making the character. All life writes its records, and the records are indelible. Men are digging up these days in Assyria clay tablets which bear yet the writing upon them thousands of years since. We are writing records, as we go on, in the books of our own life; and from these records we shall be judged in the great day of accounts. We never can get away from ourselves or from the story of our own life. How important it is that every thought shall be white and holy!
It is not the easy life that leaves the noblest record in character. It is plainly taught in Holy Scripture that we must through much tribulation enter the kingdom. A twofold baptism is appointed to believers – with the Holy Ghost and with fire. We are told even of Jesus that, though He were a Son, yet He learned obedience through the things that He suffered, and that He was made perfect through suffering. Much more needful is it for us that we pass through tribulations in the purifying of our life, and the making of Christly character in us.
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