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Our Obedience Enables God to Fulfill Promises, February 26
Today you have proclaimed the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk
in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments,
and that you will obey His voice.
Deuteronomy 26:17
, NKJV.
Let us be loyal and true to every precept of the law of God. The Lord declares
that if we will obey the principles of His law, these principles will be our life...
The precepts of God’s law were not the production of any human mind, nor
were they enacted by Moses. They were framed by the One infinite in wisdom, even
Him who is King of kings and Lord of lords, and by Him were proclaimed from
Sinai amidst scenes of awful grandeur. On obedience to these precepts depended
Israel’s prosperity.
“Thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy
soul.” God did not give His commandments to us for us to obey when we pleased,
and to disregard at our pleasure. They are the laws of His kingdom, and are to be
obeyed by His subjects. If His people would obey His law with the whole heart,
decided witness would be borne to the world that those whom He has avouched to
be His people, His peculiar treasure, do indeed honor Him in all they do. Loyalty
to God, unquestioning obedience to His law, would make His people a wonder in
the world, because He would be able to fulfill His rich and abundant promises to
them, and make them a praise in the earth. They would be a holy people unto Him.
“Now therefore,” God declares, “if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep
my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for
all the earth is mine: and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy
nation.” How wonderful the largeness of God’s promises! And they are given to
all who will hearken to His Word, believing His declarations, and obeying His
commands. Obedience to His law is the condition of future and eternal happiness.—
The Southern Watchman, February 16, 1904
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