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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 7, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 45.

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Nothing Shall Offend Them

By T. E. BOWEN

T. E. BOWEN
The Bible gives this antidote for those who are easily offended: “Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.” Ps. 119:165.
“Nothing shall offend them.” This is what it says. It seems almost too good to be true, yet these are God's own words. This most blessed experience is for every one of us who's following the lowly Christ. The antidote is loving God's law; and loving God's law really means loving God with all our hearts, and our neighbor as ourselves.
David had much to say about the law of God. He exalted it in song, he meditated upon its precepts in the night season, and in his life showed that he was above being offended. See him in the cave, with Saul under the power of his hand. It was the love for God's law that kept him from killing his deadly enemy. Once he failed, and broke one of God's precepts, but how earnestly and with what bitterness of soul did he repent of his sin!
Love for God's holy law and hatred for any one, whether within or without the church, can not dwell in the same breast at the same time. Are you easily offended? Then love for the precepts of God is surely lacking. Where offense is easily taken, it is evident that peace can not abide. This we all have proved by experience. It is when we love most that we enjoy the most peace. This is God's way for us to avoid the misery and torture accompanying offenses easily taken. Jesus chose the way of the commandments, the way of peace. Nothing offended him. If we would always follow him, then greater would be our peace amid the trials of every-day life.