The Life Struggle

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 16, 1872

The Life Struggle.

THE apostle Paul, after having labored long and earnestly in his Lord’s service, still felt that he was a human being, and liable at any time, through the weakness of the flesh, to lose all. “I keep under my body,” says he, “and bring it into subjection, lest after I have preached the gospel unto others, I myself should be a castaway.” If this watchfulness was needful on the part of this aged and long-tried servant of God, what care and diligence ought we to exercise, lest we should lose all in an unguarded hour? Our pathway through life is thickly set with snares for our feet. The seductions of passion, the allurements of vice, things to arouse our anger and stir up our heart’s feelings, await us at every turn of life’s devious ways, and blessed indeed is that man or that woman who meets them all without harm.