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Still Loved Though We Err, May 5
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if
any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous.
1 John 2:1
.
Those who are in connection with God are channels for the power of the
Holy Spirit. If one who daily communes with God errs from the path, if he
turns a moment from looking steadfastly unto Jesus, it is not because he sins
willfully; for when he sees his mistake, he turns again, and fastens his eyes
upon Jesus, and the fact that he has erred does not make him less dear to
the heart of God. He knows that he has communion with the Saviour; and
when reproved for his mistake in some matter of judgment, he does not walk
sullenly, and complain of God, but turns the mistake into a victory. He learns
a lesson from the words of the Master, and takes heed that he be not again
deceived.
Those who truly love God have internal evidence that they are beloved
of God, that they have communion with Christ, that their hearts are warmed
with fervent love toward Him. The truth for this time is believed with sound
confidence. They can say with all assurance, “We have not followed cunningly
devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.... We have also a
more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto
a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise
in your hearts” (
2 Peter 1:16-19
).
The inner life of the soul will reveal itself in the outward conduct. Let
the Word of God bear its testimony in behalf of the messenger whom God
hath sent with a message in these last days to prepare a people to stand in
the day of the Lord. “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him
that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings
of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!”
(
Isaiah 52:7
).
The wisdom of so-called intellectual men cannot be relied upon, unless
they have learned and are daily learning lessons in the school of Christ. Men,
in their supposed wisdom, may plan and devise theories and systems of
philosophy, but the Lord calls them vain and foolish. The Lord says, “The
foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger
than men” (
1 Corinthians 1:25
).—
The Review and Herald, May 12, 1896
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