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

1917 A WARNING AND ADVICE 439
that they will be no longer subject to them.
Obedience
to the higher law places you in another realm of divine
law, and the higher and more perfect the law, the more
perfect must be compliance with it. If any one, even the
highest angel, should disobey the law of heaven and
obey a law of earth, he would be a fallen spirit and
bound to serve out the penalty of the law he willingly
assumed. How true are the words of Jesus when he
said. "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which
leadeth unto life, and few therebe that find it." But
the only reason they do not find it is their selfish holding
to personal loves,-of friends, wealth, or some earthly
consideration. As soon as you can become a little
child in so far as your sex nature is concerned, and with
the confinence of a child place your hand in the hand of
our heavenly Father, and from the soul say, "All I ask
is
that you lead and guide me in all things," you will
find yourself in that narrow way, and as long as you
keep faithfully your covenant of obedience you will
never err, for the angel of His presence will always be
near you, tho you do not know it, and will impress your
soul-consciousness with the right thing to do.
It is wisest and best for you not to know when you
have the guidance of the spirit, for did you know, you
would yield up your individuality entirely and become a
mere automaton. Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free." It is not enough
that your holy guide knows the truth and leads you in
the right way, but you must know it, and go the right
way because you love the right. Therefore, the way they
guide you in all matters pertaining to right and wrong
is to reflect upon your mind the knowledge they possess
in those matters and leave you free to choose for yourself.
There is a law of mind governing in the spirit
world which enables the soul to turn its mind upon a