How Shall I Live? by Raymond F. Cottrell

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 9, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 15.

How Shall I Live?

By Raymond F. Cottrell

I OFTEN hear people acknowledge the Sabbath truth, but they say, "I don't see how I am going to live if I keep the Sabbath." This is talking just as our Saviour told us not to talk. "Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (for after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Campbell translates: "But seek first the kingdom of God and the righteousness required by him; and all these things shall be superadded to you."

Are we not in the hand of God? Shall we take ourselves out of his hand, and take care of ourselves? We read: "Keep my commandments and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye." "If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life."

Should we anxiously ask, How shall we live if we keep the commandments? For me I do not see how I am to live, if I do not keep them.

R. F. COTTRELL.