Will You Cling to the Earth?

Will You Cling to the Earth? Surely this is a question for the age—a question for the Church of God—a question for every child of the kingdom. It is a question, too, for those who are still wholly of the earth: “Will ye cling to the earth; and what will that earth to which you cling do for you?” It is a question for those who think it possible to be both lovers of God and lovers of pleasure: “Will ye try to reconcile what is irreconcilable? Is not God enough without the world—is not Christ enough without its pleasures?” It is a question for the anxious and the earnest: “Will ye not decide—will ye waver, will ye halt, will ye try something less than an entire surrender of the whole man to God?” It is a question for the Christian: “Will you be less than your name implies— less than a child of heaven, less than an heir of God, and a joint heir with Christ?” (Rom 8:17). It is by faith you stand. It was the belief of God’s free love, as manifested in the cross of His Son, that made you what you are; and if that faith has any meaning, it means that you are no longer of the world, that your treasure is above, that your inheritance is not here, and that you are waiting, in patient love and hope, amid weariness and buffeting and trouble, for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.   

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