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Obedience Has Immediate and Eternal Rewards, February 27
Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your
soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets
between your eyes.
Deuteronomy 11:18
, NKJV.
These words [
Deuteronomy 11:13-28
and 7:6-11] should be as distinctly
stamped upon every soul as though written with a pen of iron. Obedience brings its
reward, disobedience its retribution.
God has given His people positive instruction, and has laid upon them positive
restrictions, that they may obtain a perfect experience in His service, and be qualified
to stand before the heavenly universe and before the fallen world as overcomers.
They are to overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony.
Those who fall short of making the preparation essential will be numbered with the
unthankful and the unholy.
The Lord brings His people by ways they know not, that He may test and prove
them. This world is our place of proving. Here we decide our eternal destiny. God
humbles His people that His will may be wrought out through them. Thus He dealt
with the children of Israel as He led them through the wilderness. He told them
what their fate would have been had He not laid a restraining hand upon that which
would have hurt them....
God blesses the work of human hands that they may return to Him His portion.
They are to devote their means to His service, that His vineyard may not remain
a barren waste. They are to study what the Lord would do were He in their place.
They are to take all difficult matters to Him in prayer. They are to reveal an unselfish
interest in the building up of His work in all parts of the world....
Let us remember that we are laborers together with God. We are not wise
enough to work by ourselves. God has made us His stewards, to prove us and to try
us, even as He proved and tried ancient Israel. He will not have His army composed
of undisciplined, unsanctified, erratic soldiers, who would misrepresent His order
and purity.—
The Review and Herald, October 8, 1901
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