No Good Thing Withheld by T. E. BOWEN

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 24, 1912

No Good Thing Withheld

By T. E. BOWEN

T. E. BOWEN

“THE Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.” Ps. 84: 11.

What a blessed promise! Read that text again. Think what it means to you—no good thing withheld. And this is a promise of God. He holds in his hand absolutely all good gifts, every good thing of which the human mind can conceive.

But God must be the judge. He it is who must decide what the good thing for us shall be. And we must have confidence in him, leaving it with him to decide. It may be pain. It may be a walk through some humiliating valley when we think we ought to be on the mountainside. It may come in some disappointed hope, some shattered plan. Yet every day, whatever the experience, here is this promise for you and me: “No good thing will he withhold;” also, “The Lord will give grace and glory.” But upon what condition?—That we “walk uprightly.” And what does this involve? “Upright.—1. In an erect position or posture; perpendicular. 2. Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as a man upright in all his ways. 3. Conformable to moral rectitude.”—Webster.

“Morally erect; . . . honest; just”—that is what it means to “walk uprightly.” And such a one has God’s unfailing promise that no good thing shall be withheld. Why not actually believe it, and act every day as if we did? By looking up, talking faith, praying humbly for God’s guidance and grace, and walking uprightly, we shall not only encourage and help others, but in this effort we ourselves shall be forming right characters, thus getting ready to receive from God the best of all good things reserved for us, even the gift of everlasting life with him in heaven.

Takoma Park, D. C.