Happiness in Obedience
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers
of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the
power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.
Col. 1:12, 13.
Our future eternal happiness depends upon having our humanity, with all
its capabilities and powers, brought into obedience to God and placed under
the control of Divinity. Many have no faith in Jesus Christ. They say, "It
was easy for Christ to obey the will of His Father, for He was divine." But
His Word declares He was "in all points tempted like as we are" (Heb. 4:15).
He was tempted according to and in proportion to His elevation of mind, but
He would not weaken or cripple His divine power by yielding to temptation.
In His life on earth Christ was a representative of what humanity may be
through the privileges and opportunities granted them in Him. . . .
When Satan tempted our first parents . . . he tried to flatter them
into believing that they should be raised above the sphere of humanity. But
Christ, by the example He has set before us, encourages the members of the
human family to be men, obeying the Word of God within the sphere of their
humanity. He Himself became a man--not a bondslave to Satan to work out his
attributes, but a man in moral power, obedient to the law of God, which is a
transcript of His character. Those who would rebel against subjection to a
wise and good law emanating from God are slaves to an apostate power.
Jesus became a man that He might mediate between man and God, . . .
that He might restore to man the original mind which he lost in Eden through
Satan's alluring temptation. . . . Disobedience is not in accordance with
the nature which God gave to man in Eden.
Through the moral power Christ has brought to man, we may give thanks
unto God who hath made us meet for the inheritance with the saints in light.
Through Jesus Christ every man may overcome in his own behalf and on his own
account, standing in his own individuality of character.
>From That I May Know Him - Page 291
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