In Tribulation Jesus Makes Us Overcome and Purifies Us through the Grace of His Blood ㅡ
“And one of the elders answered, saying to me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and from where came they?
And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
(Revelation 7:13, 14)
In this life we must meet fiery trials and make costly sacrifices, but the peace of Christ is the reward.
There has been so little self-denial, so little suffering for Christ’s sake, that the cross is almost entirely forgotten.
We must be partakers with Christ of His sufferings if we would sit down in triumph with Him on His throne.
So long as we choose the easy path of self-indulgence and are frightened at self-denial, our faith will never become firm, and we cannot know the peace of Jesus nor the joy that comes through conscious victory.
The most exalted of the redeemed host that stand before the throne of God and the Lamb, clad in white, know the conflict of overcoming, for they have come up through great tribulation.
No one need say that his case is hopeless, that he cannot live the life of a Christian.
Ample provision is made by the death of Christ for every soul.
Jesus is our ever-present help in time of need.
Only call upon Him in faith, and He has promised to hear and answer your petitions.
Oh, for a living, active faith!
We need it; we must have it, or we shall faint and fail in the day of trial.
The darkness that will then rest upon our path must not discourage us or drive us to despair.
It is the veil with which God covers His glory when He comes to impart rich blessings.
We should know this by our past experience.
In that day when God has a controversy with His people this experience will be a source of comfort and hope.
(Testimonies for the Church Volume 5 215)
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