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We Love God’s Commandments More Than Gold,
February 17
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine
gold.
Psalm 119:127
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In these days of peril shall we show less devotion to the truth of God,
and less fervent attachment to His law, than in former years? The very
condition of things exists which Christ declared would be, prior to His
second coming in power and glory. The prevailing ungodliness tends to
paralyze and even to destroy true faith and piety. But this is the very time
when the gold of Christian integrity will shine brightest, in contrast to the
dross of hypocrisy and corruption. Now is the time for Christ’s chosen
to show their devotion to His service,—the time for all His followers to
bear the noblest testimony for their Master by standing firm against the
prevailing current of evil.
As we see the results which have followed a disregard of God’s law,—
dishonesty, theft, licentiousness, drunkenness, and murder,—we are pre-
pared to say with the psalmist, “I love thy commandments above gold; yea,
above fine gold”; “in keeping of them, there is great reward.” When the
divine law is set aside, the greatest misery will result, both to families and
to society. Our only hope of better things is to be found in a faithful adher-
ence to the precepts of Jehovah. Infidel France once tried the experiment
of rejecting the authority of God. What scenes of horror followed! Men
cast aside the divine law as a yoke of bondage, and in their boasted liberty
they placed themselves under the rule of the veriest tyrant. Anarchy and
bloodshed ruled that terrible day. It was then demonstrated to the world
that the surest way to undermine the foundation of order and government,
is to set at naught the law of God....
Instead of feeling that we are now in the slightest degree excusable in
further transgression, we shall realize as never before the justice of God’s
claims upon us, and the sacred character of His law, since Christ must die
to maintain its authority. Ere long the obedient will see the blessed results
that follow the keeping of all God’s commandments
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The Signs of the Times, December 15, 1881
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