Acquaint Now Thyself with Him, and be at Peace.
By H. A. St. John
We all need to become better acquainted with God. The whole human race has become estranged from him, and many have forgotten him altogether; God is not in all their thoughts, much less in their ways. This estrangement is caused by the prince of darkness, who is ever misrepresenting God’s character, and thus blinding the mind and hardening the heart. Christ is our mediator, and through him alone can we become acquainted with God. The more we learn about the life and character of Jesus, and the more fully we obey and follow him, the better we shall become acquainted with our heavenly Father. And the better we become acquainted with our holy Father, the better we shall love him, and the more we shall delight in obedience to his great law of love. It is thus that we may glorify him in our bodies and spirits, which are his. O, how blessed to glorify God in all we think, say, and do! We can never measure the length, breadth, height, or depth of the love of God to us, as revealed in the gift of his dear Son, but we may be filled with that love, and thus be enabled to glorify God here; and then in the sweet by and by he will glorify us with the same glory that Jesus will ever have.