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Be Like Jesus, Not Like the World, June 1
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. You
shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.
Deuteronomy 25:13, 14
, NKJV.
Those who profess to love and fear God should cherish sympathy and love for
one another, and should guard the interests of others as their own. Christians should
not regulate their conduct by the world’s standard. In all ages the people of God are
as distinct from worldlings as their profession is higher than that of the ungodly.
From the beginning to the end of time, God’s people are one body.
The love of money is the root of all evil. In this generation the desire for gain
is the absorbing passion. If wealth cannot be secured by honest industry, human
beings seek to obtain it by fraud. Widows and orphans are robbed of their scanty
pittance, and poor people are made to suffer for the necessaries of life. And all this
that the rich may support their extravagance, or indulge their desire to hoard.
The terrible record of crime daily committed for the sake of gain is enough
to chill the blood and fill the soul with horror. The fact that even among those
who profess godliness the same sins exist to a greater or less extent calls for deep
humiliation of soul and earnest action on the part of the followers of Christ. Love
of display and love of money have made this world a den of thieves and robbers.
But Christians are professedly not dwellers upon the earth; they are in a strange
country, stopping, as it were, only for a night. They should not be actuated by the
same motives and desires as are those who have their home and treasure here. God
designed that our lives should represent the life of our great Pattern: that, like Jesus,
we should live to do others good....
Every wrong done to the children of God is done to Christ Himself in the person
of His saints. Every attempt to advantage one’s self by the ignorance, weakness, or
misfortune of another is registered as fraud in the ledger of heaven.—
The Southern
Watchman, May 10, 1904
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