Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

294 BIBLE REVIEW Apr.-May
David did many things that displeased God, and he
reaped the bad results. But how often does he plead
for mercy thruout the Psalms? "Remember not the sins
of my youth,
nor my transgressions: according to thy
mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O
LORD." The Psalms are replete with such requests,
showing that David believed that tho he had done wrong
God in his mercy could alleviate his suiferings.
Therefore if we sow wrongfully and are sorry, God is
sure to be with us in mercy to aid us and to comfort us.
A belief in a blind fate retards the growth, and prevents
one from stepping out into the sunshine of God's love.
Our God is not a God of vengeance but he shows "mercy
unto thousands of them that love him and keep his commandments.
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"God is Love" and God is Wisdom, and Love and Wisdom
will never allow any suffering that is in any way
detrimental to its children. That which is right for the
child to reap in order for the child to learn some useful
lesson therefrom, our heavenly Father will allow, but
that which is detrimental, he in his divine mercy will
remove, and even in our severest lessons, he will be there
to comfort and to instruct. For "Tho your sins be as
scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; tho they be red
like crimson they shall be as wool." "For I will be
merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and
their iniquities will I remember no more." (Heb. viii. 12;
Isa. i. 18.)
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WHERE our bodies are and what they are engaged in
is of little importance compared with where our minds
are and what they are busy about, for "As he [man]
thinketh in his heart so is he."-A---.