The Reversed Life

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 28, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 16.

The Reversed Life

IT is a great blessing to be stopped when we are heading in the wrong direction. For oftentimes we can not stop ourselves — if, for example, the power of some bad habit relentlessly drives us away from that which we know is right. It is then that we need the experience of the reversed life. As the engineer in the cab of a locomotive moves a lever and reverses the whole action of that locomotive, so that it stops and runs in exactly the opposite direction from that in which it had been moving, so our Lord Jesus Christ is ready to reverse every natural inclination and tendency of our consciously sinful nature, and do it the instant such a tendency is felt, if we will let Him. If we have a feeling of unlove in our heart, let us just remember that the Lord Jesus is here within us to reverse that; and as, in complete surrender, we quietly trust Him to do so, He will replace the feeling of unlove with a supernatural, Christ-consisting love. So of every other conscious temptation to wrongdoing that we may ever know — Christ is here to reverse it, instantly, omnipotently, triumphantly, making us always more than conquerors. For us sinners to accept the reversed life is to dare to receive from God His promise that "as He is, even so are we in this world." — Sunday School Times.