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Ever Search for More Light, April 11
I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done
under heaven.
Ecclesiastes 1:13
, NKJV.
Whatever may be humanity’s intellectual advancement, let no one for a moment
think that there is no need of thorough and continuous searching of the Scriptures for
greater light. As a people we are called individually to be students of prophecy. We
must watch with earnestness that we may discern any ray of light which God shall
present to us. We are to catch the first gleamings of truth; and through prayerful
study clearer light may be obtained, which can be brought before others.
When God’s people are at ease and satisfied with their present enlightenment,
we may be sure that He will not favor them. It is His will that they should be ever
moving forward to receive the increased and ever-increasing light which is shining
for them. The present attitude of the church is not pleasing to God. There has come
in a self-confidence that has led them to feel no necessity for more truth and greater
light. We are living at a time when Satan is at work on the right hand and on the
left, before and behind us; and yet as a people we are asleep. God wills that a voice
shall be heard arousing His people to action.
Instead of opening the soul to receive rays of light from heaven, some have
been working in an opposite direction. Both through the press and from the pulpit
have been presented views in regard to the inspiration of the Bible which have not
the sanction of the Spirit or the Word of God. Certain it is that no human being
or set of human beings should undertake to advance theories upon a subject of so
great importance, without a plain “Thus saith the Lord” to sustain them.
And when people, compassed with human infirmities, affected in a greater
or less degree by surrounding influences, and having hereditary and cultivated
tendencies which are far from making them wise or heavenly-minded, undertake
to arraign the Word of God, and to pass judgment upon what is divine and what is
human, they are working without the counsel of God. The Lord will not prosper
such a work. The effect will be disastrous, both upon the one engaged in it and
upon those who accept it as a work from God.—
Testimonies for the Church 5:708,
709
.
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