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Transgression is Forgiven, Sin is Covered, October 29
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Psalm 32:1
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That God who marks the fall of a sparrow, marks your deportment and
your feelings; He marks your envy, your prejudice, your attempt to justify
your action in the least matter of injustice. When you misconceive the
words and acts of another, and your own feelings are stirred, so that you
make incorrect statements, and it is known that you are at variance with
your brother, you lead others, through their confidence in you, to regard
him just as you do; and by the root of bitterness springing up, many are
defiled. When it is evident that your feelings are incorrect, do you try
just as diligently to remove the erroneous impressions as you did to make
them? ...
Now God requires that you who have thus done the least injustice to
another shall confess your fault, not only to the one you have injured, but
to those who through your influence have been led to regard their brother
in a false light, and to make of none effect the work God has given him
to do.... By repentance and confession you can have pardon registered
against your name; or you can resist the conviction of the Spirit of God,
and during the rest of your life, work to make it appear that your wrong
feelings and unjust conclusions could not be helped. But there stands the
action, there stands the evil committed, there stands the ruin of those in
whose hearts you planted the root of bitterness....
Whatever the character of your sin, confess it. If it is against God only,
confess only to Him. If you have wronged or offended others, confess also
to them, and the blessing of the Lord will rest upon you. In this way you
die to self, and Christ is formed within.... Our consecration to God must be
unreserved, our love ardent, our faith unwavering. Then the expressions
of the lips will testify to the quickened intelligence of the mind and the
deep movings of the Spirit of God upon the soul
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The Review and Herald, December 16, 1890
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