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

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thy God."
To humble yourself before a person is to become
obedient to that person.
As you promise obedience
to the guidance of the Spirit, something within contradicts
your intellect and says, "No, you will not, you may
be. required to do something that you would not like to
do." Thus in place of walking humbly with God you
constantly have areserve deep down in your soul. You
have so long distrusted your fellow-man that now you
can not even trust God. It is said by some of the ancient
occult orders that the most highly developed people
in the world are found in the United States; yet, a society
cannot be organized here, because these persons will
not be absolutely obedient to the master who is appointed
over them.
Now, in this, the Christian religion, you are required
to be entirely obedient to no master save one, which is
God. But remember this: you can never become a member
of the Order of Melchisedec, which Christ came to
establish on earth, until every thought, feeling and desire,
is in perfect submission to the will of our heavenly
Father; for until you can close the door of your heart,
and of your thought, and of your desire, from all men
and all things of an earthly nature, and desire to know
the will of God that you may do it, you can not receive
this blessing of consciousness that you please God.
Until
you can
make this promise without one feeling of
reserve you are not accepted as a member of the heavenly
order, and cannot "walk humbly with thy God."
We are told that Enoch, the seventh from Adam,
walked with God; and it is your privilege to-day to consciously
walk with him, and to receive continual guidance
from that holy and perfect mind. The majority of thc
the human family, even among the most devout, are
praying to their fellows more than to God: thus they are
breaking the commandment and worshipping other gods.