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

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agent, and grants him the exercise of his evil desires, in
order that thru them and their results, he may learn to
choose the good and reject the evil.
But he says thru the
mouth of Isaiah (v. 20): "Woe unto them that call evil
good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and
light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet
for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own
eyes, and prudent in their own sightl"
Say not that God tempted any man to evil doing, it is
selfishness and lack of knowledge of God's spiritual laws
that are at the root of all wrong doing. It is not your
nationality, it is not your creed, not what you claim to be,
it is what you are, what you do, that makes you a brother
or a sister of the son of God.
Neither are all who call
upon his name accepted by him, for he plainly says of
those who claimed to have done mighty works in his
name, "I never knew you." They are His, who are ever
ready to do the will of the Father; to say, thy will, not
mine, be done," no
matter what it may appear to take
from them or what the dangers to which it may expose
them.
When he shall appear, shall he find faith on the earth?
Are there many who at all times, under all circumstances
are prepared to say-"Thy will not mine be done."
The
willingness to do God's will, you see, has nothing whatever
to do with one's nationality, one's country, or one's
birth: but it is in the overcoming of the human desires,
prejudices, and will. And the overcomer shall see-"A
great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations,
and kindreds, and people, and tongues." (Rev.
vii. 9.) How human it is to give way to the impulses of
prejudice or favoritism, and how ungodly!
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