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Blessed Secret

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 18, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 28.

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Blessed Secret

BLESSED secret, to learn how to do without things! We need to learn this secret of full life in Christ in spite of minor deprivations, because we can not have all the things that we want—even rich men have been known to want more things—and some of us have to do without things which on the plane of physical life are quite desirable.
If we can gain wealth, it is well to have it, if we receive it as coming from God and use it for His glory; but if we do not possess this wealth, which is the lowest wealth in the gifts of God, we are exhorted to “covet earnestly the best gifts”—that wealth of heart and soul which lies open for the taking to every follower of Christ. Here is wealth worthy of ambition; wealth which is offered freely and without stint; the “unsearchable riches” of Christ, which will make us wealthy to all eternity. Christ never asks us to do without this wealth, the “true riches;” but He says, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”—Advance.