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Search the Word Objectively and Personally, April 14
Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation;
on You I wait all the day.
Psalm 25:5
, NKJV.
It is dangerous for us to make flesh our arm. We should lean upon the arm of
infinite power. God has been revealing this to us for years. We must have living
faith in our hearts, and reach out for larger knowledge and more advanced light.
Do not trust to the wisdom of any person, or to the investigations of any person.
Go to the Scriptures for yourselves, search the inspired Word with humble hearts,
lay aside your preconceived opinions; for you will obtain no benefit unless you
come as children to the Word of God. You should say, “If God has anything for
me, I want it. If God has given evidence from His Word to this or that person that a
certain thing is truth, He will give it to me. I can find that evidence if I search the
Scriptures with constant prayer, and I can know that I do know what is truth.”
You need not preach the truth as the product of another person’s mind; you must
make it your own. When the woman of Samaria was convinced that Jesus was the
Messiah, she hastened to tell her neighbors and townsmen. She said, “Come, see
a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? Then they
went out of the city, and came unto him.... And many of the Samaritans of that
city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all
that ever I did....And many more believed because of his own word: and said unto
the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him
ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ.”
We must sink the shaft deep in the mine of truth. You may question matters with
yourselves and with one another, if you only do it in the right spirit; but too often
self is large, and as soon as investigation begins, an unchristian spirit is manifested.
This is just what Satan delights in, but we should come with a humble heart to know
for ourselves what is truth. The time is coming when we shall be separated and
scattered, and each one of us will have to stand without the privilege of communion
with those of like precious faith; and how can you stand unless God is by your
side, and you know that He is leading and guiding you? Whenever we come to
investigate Bible truth, the Master of assemblies is with us. The Lord does not leave
the ship one moment to be steered by ignorant pilots. We may receive our orders
from the Captain of our salvation.—
The Review and Herald, March 25, 1890
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