Belief in Christ Means Everlasting Life

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for January 5
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Belief in Christ Means Everlasting Life

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. John 3:36.


When the soul surrenders itself to Christ, a new power takes possession
of the new heart. A change is wrought which man can never accomplish for
himself. It is a supernatural work, bringing a supernatural element into
human nature. The soul that is yielded to Christ becomes His own
fortress, which He holds in a revolted world, and He intends that no
authority shall be known in it but His own. A soul thus kept in
possession by the heavenly agencies is impregnable to the assaults of
Satan.

Christ is ready to impart all heavenly influences. He knows every
temptation that comes to man, and the capabilities of every human agent.
He weighs his strength. He sees the present and the future, and presents
before the mind the obligations that should be met, and urges that
common, earthly things shall not be permitted to be so absorbing that
eternal things shall be lost out of reckoning. 

The gifts of His grace through Christ are free to all. There is no
election but one's own by which any may perish. God has set forth in His
Word the conditions upon which every soul will be elected to eternal
life-obedience to His commandments, through faith in Christ. God has
elected a character in harmony with His law, and any one who shall reach
the standard of His requirement, will have an entrance into the kingdom
of glory. Christ Himself said, "He that believeth on the Son hath
everlasting life."

What an exalted position to be identified with one in whom is all
perfection centered, who is indeed the Majesty of heaven, but who loved
us, although fallen, so much that language cannot express it! He for our
sakes laid aside His royal robe, stepped down from the throne of heaven,
and condescended to clothe His divinity with humility, and became like
one of us except in sin, that His life and character should be a pattern
for all to copy, that they might have the precious gift of eternal life.

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares