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“While He May Be Found”, December 4
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he
is near.
Isaiah 55:6
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There is coming, rapidly and surely, an almost universal guilt upon the
inhabitants of the great cities because of the steady increase of determined
wickedness. God has given life to man, in order that through a knowledge
of the Word and by practicing its principles, the human agent may become
one with God, obedient to the divine will. But Satan has been working
constantly by many devisings to bring man into disfavor with God. In the
antediluvian world, human agencies brought in all manner of devisings
and ingenious practices to make of no effect the law of Jehovah. They
cast aside His authority, because it interfered with their schemes. As in
the days before the Flood, so now the time is right upon us when the Lord
God must reveal His omnipotent power....
For years Satan has been gaining control of human minds through
subtle sophistries that he has devised to take the place of the truth. In
this time of peril, rightdoers, in the fear of God, will glorify His name by
repeating the words of David, “It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they
have made void thy law.”
Our God is a God of compassion. With long-suffering and tender
mercy He deals with the transgressors of His law. And yet in this our
day, when men and women have so many opportunities for becoming
familiar with the divine law as revealed in Holy Writ, the great Ruler of
the universe cannot behold with any satisfaction the wicked cities, where
reign violence and crime....
The forbearance of God has been very great, so great that when we
consider the continuous insult to His holy commandments we marvel.
The Omnipotent One has been exerting a restraining power over His own
attributes. But He will certainly arise to punish the wicked, who so boldly
defy the just claims of the decalogue.
Now is a time when there should be a humbling of the heart before
God. Let us seek Him while He is to be found on the pardoning side, and
not on the judgment side. Wake up, my brethren and sisters.... Call upon
the Lord while He may be found.
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