p. 9 | Choose Ye This Day by H. S. Anderson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 28, 1915

“Choose Ye This Day”

By H. S. Anderson

H. S. ANDERSON

MAN is closely allied by heritage, intelligence, choice, and will power to the Source of his being. Two forces, life and choice, are inherent in every soul. Life means consciousness and activity; while the exercise of will power is the balancing rod which determines our personal destiny.

Only divine love and good will could plan this beautiful world, and give it to men and women to do with as they choose; hence, a failure to use well—misusing and abusing—the powers that were given to be only a blessing, is the source of much that is to be deplored in this present world; and just how we relate ourselves individually to the little duties that daily present themselves fixes the character which in the great day will reveal our finished work. If we do our duty faithfully today, we shall be led where we are needed tomorrow. Whether we like our places in life or not, there is real blessing in them.

Some vainly plead the law of heredity as an excuse for wrong traits of character which they allow. But where sin abounds, grace does much more abound. True, we inherit from hundreds of ancestors. The blood of many families, tribes, and races may be in our veins. This being so, it is possible that a man may resemble any of his ancestors, but which one he shall pattern after he chooses for himself by a thousand silent moral preferences which spell choice.

Each one must, each one does, determine by God's grace his own destiny. Looking at it from the standpoint of eternity, with its possibilities, its consequences, one most important daily business should be the wise conduct of our physical, intellectual, and spiritual forces in the threefold relation to God, our fellow men, and ourselves. “Choose now.”