Gold Nugget 353 - Inheriting the Universe

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      A man may overcome others by violence, overcome difficulties in his secular pursuits, overcome the forces of nature so as to make them subserve his will, and yet not overcome himself. 

      Self-conquest includes at least two things – the subordination of the body to the soul, and the subordination of the soul to sympathy with God.  The soul may rule the body, but it may rule it for selfish, or skeptical, or ambitious ends.  Such a rule would not be self-conquest.  The soul should be ruled by sympathy with God, sympathy with his character, his operation his plans.  In these two things self-conquest consists, and such conquests require battling – resolute, brave, persistent, invincible battling. …

      The millions of men who live in the universe do not inherit it; it inherits, possesses them, uses them, plays with them, absorbs them.  But the man who has conquered himself comes under the control of sympathy with the great God – inherits all things – gets the universe.

      He gets the whole of it; he penetrates its meaning, appropriates its truths, admires its beauties, drinks in its poetry, revels in its spirit, exults in its God, and says, “The Lord is my Portion.”  He gets the whole of it to enjoy forever. 

 

The Pulpit Commentary, Revelation p. 538, Revelation 21:5-8, (D. Thomas)

 

Gold Nugget 353

Inheriting the Universe

 

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