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WALKING WITH GOD

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 30, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 2.

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WALKING WITH GOD.

By L. E. Miller

How inspiring, how heavenly is the thought that we poor, weak, and unworthy mortals may walk with God. In our daily life and conversation, amid its toils and temptations, we may have the testimony of the Spirit that our ways please the Lord. Then we are walking with God. We are walking with God when we keep his commandments, and have the faith of Jesus. Enoch walked with God, though he lived in the midst of a wicked people, and was translated to those beautiful mansions above. So we, in these last days, amid a crooked and perverse generation, may shine as lights in the world, and walk with God. When our lives are hid with Christ, then, indeed, are we walking with God, and have a clear title to those glorious mansions which Jesus has gone to prepare for those who love his appearing. We have the tried gold, the eyesalve, and the white raiment. Language, at the best, can give but a faint idea of the union with Christ our beloved, which the child of God enjoys from day to day, while he is walking with God. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God, adopted into his family, and thereby know that they are of the household of faith. Ah, how this poor world recedes from our sight, and Heaven, sweet Heaven, grows more bright and attractive. Oh! that beautiful land of rest! That blessed abode of peace, and love!
Weary pilgrims, lift up your heads and rejoice, for your redemption draweth nigh. There, in that blessed land, they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat, for the Lamb that is in the midst of them shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
“Oh! ’twere sweet to toil in sadness, Oh! ’twere well the cross to bear, If at last in joy and gladness, We may rest forever there.”
L. E. MILLER.