SOWING WILD OATS by E. W. Catlin

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 27, 1900

SOWING WILD OATS.

By E. W. Catlin

E. W. CATLIN.

(Kenyon, Minn.)

“Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.” Eccl. 11:9. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.” Jer. 17:9. With what does the heart “cheer”?—With deceit. How will you be walking if you “walk” in its ways?—In wickedness. Now you may “do all these things,” and even “rejoice” in them, “but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.” “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Heb. 10:31. To fall is to fail in power. When you “fall into the hands of the living God,” at the Judgment, you will fail in power, and must then accept the reward of the deeds done in the body. My young brother, “be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Gal. 6:7.