Transforming Power

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 20, 1865

Transforming Power.

If you have a fire, cast wood and straw upon it, and it will cause them to burst forth into a flame. Let the fire be furnace heated, then cast stones into it, it will break and dissolve them. Submit to its beat gold or silver, it will purge away their dross. Cast iron into it, and it will soon transform the metal into its own likeness, a mass of molten fire. Even so with the Spirit. To bring your worthless soul to receive revelations and discoveries of the love of God, and the grace and goodness of Josus; and the Spirit, in taking of the things of Christ, and showing them to you, will fire your whole soul witb the flames of gratitude and love. Submit your stony heart to his operation, and he will break it into pieces with the bammer of the word, and melt it into prayers of penitential return. Carry your corruptions to him to be subdued, and he will purify your soul from sin and from dead works, to serve the living God. Let him exert his full power upon you, and he will make you like unto himself, pure as he is pure, and you shall be changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.—Pastor’s Legacy.