To Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness

I love to tell the story; of Jesus and His love; because I know it is true. For some have never heard that old, old story of Jesus and His love. Let us focus all mental thought on the lovely Jesus and His blood atonement for our sins. “Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.” John 1:29 “It would be well for us to spend a thoughtful hour each day in contemplation of the life of Christ. We should take it point by point, and let the imagination grasp each scene, especially the closing ones. As we thus dwell upon His great sacrifice for us, our confidence in Him will be more constant, our love will be quickened, and we shall be more deeply imbued with His spirit. If we would be saved at last, we must learn the lesson of penitence and humiliation at the foot of the cross. As we associate together, we may be a blessing to one another. If we are Christ's, our sweetest thoughts will be of Him. We shall love to talk of Him; and as we speak to one another of His love, our hearts will be softened by divine influences. Beholding the beauty of His character, we shall be "changed into the same image from glory to glory."” 2 Cor. 3:18. DA 83 (See 4T 374) What does this mean to learn the lesson of penitence and humiliation at the foot of the cross? Take an hour each day to thoughtfully review God’s love towards us as demonstrated to in the life of Christ. “Christ came to reveal God to the world as a God of love, full of mercy, tenderness, and compassion.” 5T 738 “Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, truly this was the Son of God.” Matthew 27:50-54 “Jesus cried, It is Finished. Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit. A light encircled the cross, and the face of the Saviour shone with a glory like the sun. He then bowed His head upon His breast, and died…. There was a violent earth earthquake. The people were shaken together in heaps. The wildest confusion and consternation ensued. In the surrounding mountains, rocks were rent asunder.” DA 756 God help me to have a deep sorrow and pain for sin, a pain necessary to be converted at the Cross of Calvary. May I be sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, that for my sins Jesus gave His life? This is very personal, it’s for me He died, it for me He suffered all to demonstrate His unconditional love. It is for me, that He gave up the highest place in the heavenly courts to fulfill the Law of Love. To have divine power operate in our lives and prayers, we must declare before God the Father our total worthlessness. In other words, we must see ourselves as poor mortals, good for nothing. (Isaiah 64:6 and Jeremiah 17:9,10) When we confess this fact to the Father and accompany it with a plea for the merits of Christ’s blood, recognizing that Christ is our only means of Salvation, then the Father will bless us with the “washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost” (Titus 3:5) “Our own merit will never commend us to the favor of God, it is the worthiness of Jesus that will save us, His blood that will cleanse us;” SC 95 “You look for worthiness in yourselves when you do not feel comforted by the Spirit of God, and despair because you cannot find it. You do not trust enough in Jesus, precious Jesus. You do not make His worthiness to be all, all. The very best you can do will not merit the favor of God. It is Jesus worthiness that will save you, His blood that will cleanse you.” 1T 167 Praise God our salvation is based on the merits of the blood of Christ. My hope is in Jesus, precious Jesus, He is my all. He must increase and I must decrease. “God rejoices to bestow His grace upon us, not because we are worthy, but because we are so utterly unworthy. Our only claim to His mercy is our great need.” MH 161 “Fear lest self shall interpose between your soul and the great Master Worker. Fear lest self-will shall mar the high purpose that through you God desires to accomplish. Fear to trust to your own strength, fear to withdraw your hand from the hand of Christ and attempt to walk life's pathway without His abiding presence.” COL 161 "I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing." Rom. 7:18. "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Gal. 6:14. Oh, to be meek and humble like Jesus. To turn from this World and all it’s vanity. Each day may I turn with more full surrender to my Lord who has demonstrated a love that will not fail until my life is hid with Christ in God. To be like Jesus all day long this is my heart cry. “Hanging upon the cross Christ was the gospel…This is our message, our argument, our doctrine, our warning to the impenitent, our encouragement for the sorrowing, the hope for every believer. If we can awaken an interest in men’s minds that will cause them to fix their eyes on Christ, we may step aside, and ask them only to continue to fix their eyes upon the Lamb of God.” Manuscript 49, 1898 “The revelation of God's love to man centers in the cross. Its full significance tongue cannot utter, pen cannot portray, the mind of man cannot comprehend. Looking upon the Cross of Calvary, we can only say, "God so loved the world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16. Christ crucified for our sins, Christ risen from the dead, Christ ascended on high, is the science of salvation that we are to learn and to teach.” MH 424 Not for Himself but for other Christ lived, thought and prayed. “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.” 1 John 3:1