Pledges of God’s Love

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 19, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 32.

Pledges of God’s Love

THE fact that God has for Christ's sake pardoned all past sins is an evidence that he will enable us to overcome all sin. Christ is the author, or beginner, of our faith in order that he may be the finisher. We may take every past blessing as a pledge that the Lord will give us all the strength and help we need for all the future. "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him freely give us all things?" Rom. 8:31. Surely he will if we believe; "for if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life." Rom. 5:9. How can we despair with such pledges of God's love?