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Daily Conversion, November 30
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his
delight.
Proverbs 11:1
.
We need to experience daily a reconversion. If you have taken advantage
in your business dealings, which the Lord calls injustice, this must be adjusted
before you can be honest and righteous in the sight of God. These things need
to be corrected by our people everywhere.... When you take up this work
of readjustment and getting right with God, angels of heaven will cooperate
with you, giving you discernment to see where you have viewed matters in a
wrong light.
Christ and angels are looking upon your work. They are measuring every
action. Let your life represent the meek and lowly Jesus. Strive to do as Christ
would do were He in your place. Let there be no disagreement between your
measurement of strict integrity and the divine measure. True, pure principles
must govern the life of every soul that shall be pronounced just and righteous
in the day of God.
There are many transactions in the business world that the worldling
regards as just and honest, but which God condemns. Men lay plans which
they regard as right plans, but which do not accord with the true, unselfish
principles that Christ has laid down in His Word.... But the approval of the
world will never make an unjust action just, and wrong will stand as wrong
before the heavenly universe until it is repented of and put away.
The Lord cannot bless the men who corrupt themselves by unjust business
dealings, either with their brethren or with worldlings. And those who do
such things lose their spirituality; they grow cold and formal and selfish.
They gloss over their past mistakes by theories of their own invention that are
opposed to the principles of the Word of God.
The principle which should characterize every business dealing is clearly
laid down by Christ. “All things whatsoever ye would that men should
do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets”
(
Matthew 7:12
)....
The folly, the evil surmising, the uplifting of self, which destroy the
fervent zeal of the soul will be put away, and the true believers will be humble
of heart, and earnest in their labors for the perishing souls.—
Letter 164,
November 30, 1909
, to the workers in Washington and Mountain View.
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