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Make Obedience Attractive, February 23
Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse: the blessing, if you
obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you today;
and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God,
but turn aside from the way which I command you today.
Deuteronomy
11:26-28
, NKJV.
Men and women are not to presume to put aside God’s great moral standard
and erect a standard according to their own finite judgment. It is because they are
measuring themselves among themselves and living according to their own standard
that iniquity abounds, and the love of many waxes cold. Contempt is shown to the
law of God, and because of this many presume to transgress, and even those who
have had the light of truth are wavering in their allegiance to the law of God. Will
the current of evil that is setting so strongly toward perdition sweep them away? Or
will they, with courage and fidelity, stem the tide and maintain loyalty to God amid
the prevailing evil? ...
Those who profess to serve God are to do the work of relieving the oppressed.
They are to bear the fruit of the good tree. Those who are truly Christ’s will not
bring oppression in the home or in the church. Parents who are following the Lord
will diligently teach their children the statutes and commandments of God; but they
will not do it in such a way that the service of God will become repulsive to their
children. Where parents love God with all their hearts, the truth as it is in Jesus will
be practiced and taught in the home....
We are closely to examine ourselves.... We should plead with God for spiritual
eyesight, that we may discern our mistakes and understand our defection of charac-
ter. If we have been critical and condemnatory, full of faultfinding, talking doubt
and darkness, we have a work of repentance and reformation to do. We are to walk
in the light, speaking words that will bring peace and happiness. Jesus is to abide
in the soul. And where He is, instead of gloom, murmuring, and repining, there
will be fragrance of character.—
The Review and Herald, June 12, 1894
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