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“The Spot of His Children”, May 1
Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people,
whose God is the Lord. Psalm 144:15.
I will thank the Lord my God for His great goodness and mercy and
love expressed to the human family. I am impressed we should cultivate
cheerfulness; and what does this do? It reveals to the world the peace and
comfort that it is our privilege to claim. It is not honoring our Lord and
Saviour to carry a shade of gloom. Many do this....
“Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words
of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil
as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers
upon the grass; because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye
greatness unto our God. He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his
ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children”
(Deuteronomy 32:1-5).
“Not the spot of his children.” They do not possess the character of the
sons and daughters of God; do not in spirit, in words, in actions, appear
as the people who love God and keep His commandments. “Do ye thus
requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that
hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?” “For the
Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found
him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about,
he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye” (verses 6, 9, 10).
The tenderness of God to His people, His unceasing care for them,
the riches of the wisdom of the methods He has taken to lead them to
Himself, demand our gratitude offerings expressed in most earnest devotion
to serve Him with all humility of mind and contrition of soul. The Lord is
gracious, and He would have His people represent His loving-kindness by
acknowledgment in cheerful thanksgiving to God. All who appreciate the
favors of God will be a happy people.1 [128]
1 Manuscript 66, 1896.
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