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have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father,
and with His Son Jesus Christ.”
1 John 1:1-3
.
So everyone may be able, through his own experience, to “set his
seal to this, that God is true.”
John 3:33
, A. R. V. He can bear witness
to that which he himself has seen and heard and felt of the power of
Christ. He can testify:
“I needed help, and I found it in Jesus. Every want was supplied,
the hunger of my soul was satisfied; the Bible is to me the revelation
of Christ. I believe in Jesus because He is to me a divine Saviour. I
believe the Bible because I have found it to be the voice of God to my
soul.”
Wonderful Possibilities
It is our privilege to reach higher and still higher for clearer reveal-
ings of the character of God. When Moses prayed, “I beseech Thee,
show me Thy glory” (
Exodus 33:18
), the Lord did not rebuke him, but
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He granted his prayer. God declared to His servant: “I will make all
My goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of Jehovah
before thee.”
Verse 19
, A. R. V.
It is sin that darkens our minds and dims our perceptions. As sin is
purged from our hearts, the light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ, illuminating His word and reflected from
the face of nature, more and more fully will declare Him “merciful and
gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.”
Exodus
34:6
.
In His light shall we see light, until mind and heart and soul are
transformed into the image of His holiness.
Wonderful possibilities are open to those who lay hold of the divine
assurances of God’s word. There are glorious truths to come before the
people of God. Privileges and duties which they do not even suspect
to be in the Bible will be laid open before them. As they follow on in
the path of humble obedience, doing His will, they will know more
and more of the oracles of God.
Let the student take the Bible as his guide and stand like a rock
for principle, and he may aspire to any height of attainment. All
the philosophies of human nature have led to confusion and shame
when God has not been recognized as all in all. But the precious faith