A PLEDGE | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 27, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 20.

A PLEDGE.

CHRISTIANS become sometimes disheartened, almost discouraged. The Lord seems to have forgotten them. He has forgiven past sins, but he gives no help in present trial. The sins of the heart rise up in rebellion against God’s will, and there is no power within the soul to put them down, and the Lord has left us to be destroyed of the enemy. So it seems to the sad, sin-buffeted heart. But it is not true. God has not forsaken. He “hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” And God has given us a pledge of his willingness to help in all the future, if we will trust in him. Says the apostle Paul, “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” Rom. 8:32. What greater pledge could be asked than this? So surely as God gave his Son, so surely will he grant all needed help to the seeker. Has he given the greater gift? he surely will the lesser. Take the promise home to thy heart, Christian; it will never fail thee, if thou wilt but meet the reasonable conditions which God asks of thee. Hold to it by faith; it is one of the “exceeding great and precious promises,”—a help to impart to us the “divine nature.”