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Our Infallible Judge, November 5
Know the God of your father, and serve him with a loyal heart and with a
willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts and understands all the intent
of the thoughts.
1 Chronicles 28:9
, NKJV.
The Lord is exact and infallible in His comprehension. He understands the
working of the human mind, the active principles of the human agents He has
formed, just how they will be moved upon by the objects that come before them, and
in what manner they will act under every temptation that can try them and in every
circumstance in which they are placed. “The ways of man are before the eyes of the
Lord, and He pondereth all his goings” (
Proverbs 5:21
). “The eyes of the Lord are in
every place” (
Proverbs 15:3
). “He looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under
the whole heaven” (
Job 28:24
). “The Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth
all the imaginations of the thoughts” (
1 Chronicles 28:9
). He knows the things that
come into our minds, every one of them.... God pities the poor, self-deceived souls
who are trampling upon His truth. Let the wheat and the tares grow together until
the harvest. Pity and deplore the blindness of the minds that are under the dominion
of Satan, but restrain your own wrath and passion, and do not pass your judgment
upon them. Leave in God’s hands the despisers of His truth. The right and liberty
of passing judgment upon others is not given to you. It was not given to Moses to
pronounce judgment against rebellious Israel. The glaring weakness of His agents,
as displayed by Moses, will bring its reward....
God’s workmen must continue to bear the blame of being troublers of Israel,
but they are not at liberty to make such assertions true. Go not into the assembly of
scoffers, sit not in the seat of the scorners, keep away from the gatherings of those
who will make your presence an occasion to speak to you humiliating things, and
will pour contempt upon your faith. Have no controversy with these men. You have
not to do with men only, but with Satan and his synagogue. When compelled to meet
them, remember the Saviour’s words, “I send you forth as lambs among wolves.”
The Lord must be your dependence; He will clothe you with a divine panoply, and
His Holy Spirit will influence your mind and heart so that your voice shall not catch
the notes of the baying of the wolves.
We are never to forget that we are representatives of Christ. We are to use no
carnal weapons when unbelieving and deluded souls come among us.... Not an
unkind or discourteous word, defensive or offensive, should escape our lips or be
traced by our pen. When reviled, we are not to revile again. “This is the victory that
overcometh the world, even our faith” (
1 John 5:4
) (
Letter 18, 1895
).
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