Glorious Possibilities Before Us

[Daily Devotional]

Glorious Possibilities Before Us 

     Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. Phil. 2:5.


     How glorious are the possibilities set before the fallen race!
Through His Son, God has revealed the excellency to which man is capable
of attaining. Through the merits of Christ man is lifted from his
depraved state, purified, and made more precious than the golden wedge
of Ophir. It is possible for him to become a companion of the angels in
glory, and to reflect the image of Jesus Christ. . . . Yet how seldom he
realizes to what heights he could attain if he would allow God to direct
his every step!  

     God permits every human being to exercise his individuality. He
desires no one to submerge his mind in the mind of a fellow mortal.
Those who desire to be transformed in mind and character are not to look
to men, but to the divine Example. God gives the invitation, "Let this
mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." By conversion and
transformation men are to receive the mind of Christ. Every one is to
stand before God with an individual faith, an individual experience,
knowing for himself that Christ is formed within, the hope of glory. . .
.  

     As our example we have One who is all and in all, the Chiefest
among ten thousand, One whose excellency is beyond comparison. He
graciously adapted His life for universal imitation. United in Christ
were wealth and poverty; majesty and abasement; unlimited power, and
meekness and lowliness, which in every soul who receives Him will be
reflected. . . .  

     O that we might more fully appreciate the honor Christ confers upon
us! By wearing His yoke and learning of Him, we become like Him in
aspiration, in meekness and lowliness, in fragrance of character, and
unite with Him in ascribing praise and honor and glory to God as
supreme. Those who live up to their high privileges in this life will
receive an eternal reward in the life to come. If faithful we shall join
the heavenly musicians in singing with sweet accord songs of praise to
God and to the Lamb.  

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