Your Home and Health - Ellen G. White

exceedingly." Psalm 119:165-167, A, R. V.
"The opening of Thy words giveth light; It giveth understanding unto the
simple." Psalm 119:130, R. V.
"Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; For they are
ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers; For Thy
testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, Because I
have kept Thy precepts." Through Thy precepts I get understanding:
Therefore I hate every false way." Thy testimonies have I taken as an
heritage forever; For they are the rejoicing of my heart." Psalm 119:98-100,
104, 111, R. V.
It is our privilege to reach higher and still higher, for clearer revealings
of the character of God. When Moses prayed, "I beseech Thee, show me Thy
glory," the Lord did not rebuke him, but He granted his prayer. God declared
to His servant, "I will make all My goodness pass before thee, and I will
proclaim the name of the Lord before thee." Ex-odus 33:18, 19.
It is sin that darkens our minds and dims our perceptions. As sin is
purged from our hearts, the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ, illuminating His word, and reflected from the face of
nature, more and more fully will declare Him "merciful and gracious, longsuffering,
and abundant in goodness and truth." Exodus 34:6.
In His light shall we see light, until mind and heart and soul are
transformed into the image of His holiness.
For those who thus lay hold of the divine assurances of God's word,
there are wonderful possibilities. Before them lie vast fields of truth, vast
resources of power. Glorious things are to be revealed. Privileges and duties
which they do not even suspect to be in the Bible will be made manifest. All
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