Spiritual Light | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 27, 1871

Spiritual Light.

WHEN the Roman soldiers, at the sacking of Jerusalem, rushed into the temple to despoil it, they found no images of gold and silver like those they were familiar with in their heathen temples. They cried out jeeringly that Jews were worshipers of the clouds.

So the devotion of Christ's people often seems to the men of this world. People whose judgment they respect in other matters, they consider slightly, but harmlessly, insane in matters of religion. The deep things of God they cannot comprehend, because “they are spiritually discerned.” It is as if a blind man should speak of the folly of those who believed in such a thing as sunshine.

St. Augustine mentions a heathen once saying to him, as he pointed to the sun, to his idol gods, and various objects about them, “Here are my gods, where is thine?” upbraiding him with worshiping a God he could not see.

St. Augustine answered, “I show you not my God, not because I have not one to show, but because you have not eyes to see him.”

The joys of the Christian are incomprehensible to those who have not tasted them, and yet they are the only true ones in the universe. To live by faith is a better portion, even for this life, than to dine with Dives every day.

“All this and Christ too!” said an aged saint, as she supped on a crust and a cup of cold water. Her face was aglow with love and gratitude, as she acknowledged all as coming from her Father's hand. Is not such a spirit better than a princely revenue?

It sweetens every mercy to know that God sends it. It takes the sting from every ill to feel that it is but for a moment, that soon all “sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”—S. S. Times.