| The Beauty of Self Control |
Chapter 4 |
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But whomsoever or whatsoever we may take into our life, Christ should always have the first place as Master, Guide, and Friend. No other one knows the capacities that are in us, and no other can find and bring out these capacities and train them for the highest service. Into Christ’s hands, therefore, we should commit our lives for teaching, for discipline, for the developing of their powers. Then we shall reach our best, and realize the divine thought for us.
Christ is able also to keep our lives. He became Master of all the world. He met every power and conquered it. He faced all evil and overcame it. We never can find ourselves in the hands of any enemy who is too strong for him. One of the most beautiful ascriptions in the Bible is that which says: “Now unto him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish in exceeding joy… be glory.” In all this world’s dangers, he can guard our lives from harm, and he can present us at last without blemish.
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