To The Newly Immersed

As newly immersed, having submitted to the obedience which Christ requires, you have made a good start on the road which leads to life eternal.

A blessed prize is before you which is well worth your greatest perseverance to obtain. Christ told his disciples that in the world they would have tribulation and this also applies to us for Paul writes the same thing: "Whom Yahweh loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth" (Heb.12:6). Yet we have the consolation of knowing that we have a faithful high priest, who was touched with the feeling of our infirmities, to intercede for us at the right hand of God. Christ has trodden the same narrow way which he has now called upon you to follow. He has borne its sorrows and felt its bitter trials and temptations and he watches with interest your growth in the Truth. He is watching and noting the changes which it is making in your walk and conversation. The smallest event in your life is known to Him.

He bids you to continue steadfast to the end. He invites you to come to him when you are weary and heavy laden and says he will give you rest. He warns you not to look back upon the world you have left. Its pleasures must no longer have an interest for you. The Word of God must be your only guide, and this fact we commend to you most earnestly, since your spiritual strength depends on your constant reading and meditation of the Word. If you make this your study, and the precepts it teaches the daily rule of your walk and conversation, then after the care and anxieties of the present life are over; you will receive an abundant entrance into the Kingdom of God. God grant that you may be strengthened and immovably fixed in this blessed faith, so that you may be able to use words of Paul written in Romans 8:35.

Bro. Friday Enyiogu (Oboro, Nigeria)