8/14/2019 It is the Completeness of Salvation That Gives It Its Greatness

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It is the Completeness of Salvation that Gives it its Greatness

It is the completeness of salvation that gives it its greatness. No man can measure or understand it by worldly

wisdom. It may be contemplated with the most profound and concentrated study, but the mind loses itself in the

untraceable majesty of its Author; but the soul united with God in meditation of his unfathomable riches, isexpanded, and becomes more capable of comprehending to a greater depth and height, the glories of the plan of

salvation. As the heart is converted to the truth, the work of transformation goes on. From day to day the Christianhas an increased measure of understanding. In becoming a man of obedience to the word and will of God, his

abilities develop and strengthen to comprehend, and to do with increased skill and wisdom, the requirements of God.

The mind devoted unreservedly to God, under the guidance of the divine Spirit develops generally and

harmoniously. The weak, vacillating character becomes changed through the power of God to one of strength and

steadfastness. Continual devotion and piety establish so close a relation between Jesus and his disciple that the

Christian becomes like him in mind and character. After association with the Son of God, the humble follower ofChrist is found to be a person of sound principle, clear perception, and reliable judgment. He has a connection with

God, the source of light and understanding. He who longed to be of service to the cause of Christ, has been so

quickened by the life-giving rays of the Sun of righteousness, that he has been enabled to bear much fruit to the

glory of God. {RH, April 17, 1888 par. 11}

There is nothing so ennobling and invigorating as a study of the great themes which concern our eternal life. Let

students seek to grasp these God-given truths; let them seek to measure these precious things, and their minds will

expand and grow strong in the effort. But a mind crowded with a mass of matter it will never be able to use, is amind dwarfed and enfeebled, because only put to the task of dealing with commonplace material. It has not been put

to the task of considering the high, elevated disclosures coming from God. {FE 447.1}

Imagine an engineer piling I-beams neatly. He makes the heaviest building.

Imagine a painter submersing his canvass in paint over and over until he has a great deal of paint on the canvass.

Imagine a pilot refusing to land because he still has more fuel and wants to use every drop.

Imagine a fireman continuing to spray foam and water into a house where a very small fire was extinguished.

Dwarf

Imagine a rubber-band-bound pile of letters that have been sitting in a drawer for two years.

Despise

Imagine a young man that comes to work three hours late after lunch because he cant get his lunch box clean

around the corners and hinges without the toothbrush he left at home.