Reflections by Lindie Sevy

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 16, 1866

Reflections.

By Lindie Sevy

As I reflect upon the scenes of the past year, and then the many blessings and privileges that we have enjoyed from time to time, I am led to inquire of myself, Have I prized these precious privileges to my eternal welfare. Let us all think of these things. As I have listened to the precious truths of God's word spoken by his ministers, I ask myself the question. Have I always afterward tried hard to live out the truth, and set a Christian example before my associates? or have I after a few weeks become lukewarm in the cause of Christ. My young friends let us be careful. We are living in dark and perilous times. The enemy is working in every possible way to deceive us and to lead us astray. Let us remember that the pleasures of this world are but short and are seldom without their pain.

"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils." 1 Timothy iv, 1. This we see already manifested in our midst. Let us watch and pray lest we enter into temptation.

For the Lord God is a sun and a shield; the Lord

will give grace and glory. No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Psalms lxxxiv, 11.

Let us begin now and walk in newness of life, and seek the throne of grace for pardon of our sins and try to live more devoted in the cause of Christ, that at the close of the next year we can look back upon it, and see that we have made some progress in the divine life.

LINDIE SEVY.

Greenbush, Mich., Dec., 1865.