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A Deeper Consecration
The teachers employed in our schools should be acquainted with
God by an experimental knowledge. They should know Him because
they obey all the commandments He has given. Jehovah engraved
His Ten Commandments on tables of stone, that all the inhabitants of
earth might understand His eternal, unchangeable character. Those
teachers who desire to advance in learning and proficiency need to
lay hold of these wonderful revelations of God. But it is only as
heart and mind are brought into harmony with God that they will
understand the divine requirements.
None need concern themselves about those things which the Lord
has not revealed to us. In these days, speculation will abound, but
God declares, “The secret things belong unto the Lord.”
Deuteron-
omy 29:29
. The voice that spoke to Israel from Sinai is speaking
in these last days to men and women, saying, “Thou shalt have no
other gods before Me.”
Exodus 20:3
. The law of God was written
with His own finger on tables of stone, thus showing that it could
never be changed or abrogated. It is to be preserved through the
eternal ages, immutable as the principles of His government. Men
have set their will against the will of God, but this cannot silence His
words of wisdom and command, though they may set their specula-
tive theories in opposition to the teachings of revelation, and exalt
human wisdom above a plain “Thus saith the Lord.”
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It should be the determination of every soul, not so much to
seek to understand all about the conditions that will prevail in the
future state, as to know what the Lord requires of him in this life.
It is the will of God that each professing Christian shall perfect a
character after the divine similitude. By studying the character of
Christ revealed in the Bible, by practicing His virtues, the believer
will be changed into the same likeness of goodness and mercy.
Christ’s work of self-denial and sacrifice brought into the daily life
will develop the faith that works by love and purifies the soul. There
are many who wish to evade the cross-bearing part, but the Lord
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