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THE LORD IS GOOD

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 24, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 49, No. 21.

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THE LORD IS GOOD.

By R. F. Cottrell

How great is his goodness toward us who are so undeserving! Even in these last days, these days of degeneracy and degradation of our race, he is willing to enlighten, lead, and save, us. And should we feel it a hardship to do and to suffer in his cause? Should we not rather esteem it a privilege to follow the self-sacrificing example of Him “who gave himself for us”? Oh! what have we cost? The Son of God gave HIMSELF for us. No reserve; life, soul, and being were freely given. He poured out his soul unto death, receiving in his own person the penalty which was justly our due.
What shall we render to God for this matchless kindness shown to us? Shall we esteem it a hard thing to follow Jesus, to bear the cross, to follow his example of self-sacrificing labor for others? Are we not debtors to him and to those for whom he died, to do all in our power to save them?
We cannot reach the sublime height of our Savior’s love and sacrifice; but we can look up to it, and press in that direction. And is not this a privilege? Oh! for a spirit to willingly enter into fellowship with his labor and sufferings for the good of others!
R. F. COTTRELL.