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will bring you no relief or happiness. Your daydreaming stands directly
in the way of your obtaining a sound, healthy, intelligent experience
in the things of God and a moral fitness for the better life.
The truth of God received into the heart is able to make you wise
unto salvation. In believing and obeying it you will receive grace
sufficient for the duties and trials of today. Grace for tomorrow you
do not need. You should feel that you have only to do with today.
Overcome for today; deny self for today; watch and pray for today;
obtain victories in God for today. Our circumstances and surroundings,
the changes daily transpiring around us, and the written word of God
which discerns and proves all things—these are sufficient to teach us
our duty and just what we ought to do, day by day. Instead of suffering
your mind to run in a channel of thought from which you will derive
no benefit, you should be searching the Scriptures daily and doing
those duties in daily life which may now be irksome to you, but which
must be done by someone.
The beauties of nature have a tongue that speaks to our senses
without ceasing. The open heart can be impressed with the love and
glory of God as seen in the works of His hand. The listening ear can
hear and understand the communications of God through the works
of nature. There is a lesson in the sunbeam and in the various objects
in nature that God has presented to our view. The green fields, the
lofty trees, the buds and flowers, the passing cloud, the falling rain,
the babbling brook, the sun, moon, and stars in the heavens, all invite
our attention and meditation, and bid us become acquainted with God,
who made them all. The lessons to be learned from the various objects
of the natural world are these: They are obedient to the will of their
Creator; they never deny God, never refuse obedience to any intimation
of His will. Fallen beings alone refuse to yield full obedience to their
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Maker. Their words and works are at variance with God and opposed
to the principles of His government.
Your thoughts are not elevated. There is enough in the natural
world to lead you to love and adore your Creator. There is food for
thought without shutting yourself away to feed on disappointed hopes
and perverted imaginings. Do not be ready to talk with unbelievers and
to enter into argument with those who oppose the truth, for you are not
furnished with Scripture knowledge to do this. You have neglected to
study your Bible. You can best recommend the truth by the meekness