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Though We Fall, We Can Conquer, Nobember 1
Oh, satisfy us early with Your mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our
days!
Psalm 90:14
, NKJV.
If God’s people would recognize His dealings with them and accept His teach-
ings, they would find a straight path for their feet and a light to guide them through
darkness and discouragement. David learned wisdom from God’s dealings with
him and bowed in humility beneath the chastisement of the Most High. The faith-
ful portrayal of his true state by the prophet Nathan made David acquainted with
his own sins and aided him to put them away. He accepted counsel meekly and
humiliated himself before God. “The law of the Lord,” he exclaims, “is perfect,
converting the soul.”
Repentant sinners have no cause to despair because they are reminded of their
transgressions and warned of their danger. These very efforts in their behalf show
how much God loves them and desires to save them. They have only to follow
His counsel and do His will to inherit eternal life. God sets the sins of His erring
people before them, that they may behold them in all their enormity under the light
of divine truth. It is then their duty to renounce them forever.
God is as powerful to save from sin today as He was in the times of the patriarchs,
of David, and of the prophets and apostles. The multitude of cases recorded in
sacred history where God has delivered His people from their own iniquities should
make the Christian of this time eager to receive divine instruction and zealous to
perfect a character that will bear the close inspection of the judgment.
Bible history stays the fainting heart with the hope of God’s mercy. We need
not despair when we see that others have struggled through discouragements like
our own, have fallen into temptations even as we have done, and yet have recovered
their ground and been blessed of God. The words of inspiration comfort and cheer
the erring soul.
Although the patriarchs and apostles were subject to human frailties, yet through
faith they obtained a good report, fought their battles in the strength of the Lord,
and conquered gloriously. Thus may we trust in the virtue of the atoning sacrifice
and be overcomers in the name of Jesus. Humanity is humanity the world over
from the time of Adam down to the present generation, and the love of God through
all ages is without a parallel.—
Testimonies for the Church 4:14, 15
.
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