Sincerity | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 16, 1869

Sincerity.

Sine, “without,” and cera, “wax”—from these two Latin words is sincerity derived.

It means pure honey after it is extracted from the substance that surrounds it.

I gather this from De Sales, a pious French writer, who has given us such treasures of thought in his works.

I had never analyzed this word. It has a new and more beautiful meaning to me from this time. If one says of a person, “He or she is sincere,” I feel that the individual is to be trusted; that the character is free from all duplicity, is frank, earnest, pure, artless. How blessed to find such a soul! May we not all attain to this sincerity? Is it not possible by God’s grace? All things are possible with God.

Let us ask for his Holy Spirit to dwell in our hearts, and so to sanctify them that they may be sincere without offense.

It is so happy to feel that God loves us, and that men trust us.—Christian Banner.