p. 111 | Acquaintance with God by I. G. Camp

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 21, 1871

Acquaintance with God.

By I. G. Camp

“Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace; thereby good shall come unto thee.” Job. 22:21.

With whom are we exhorted to acquaint ourselves? With some noble man of the earth who is able and has promised to bestow upon us some worldly honor or pleasure? Oh, no! far from this. Acquaint now thyself with the God that made the heavens and the earth, who is able and has promised to bestow upon us every needed blessing.

And be at peace! Oh, yes! an acquaintance with the Lord brings peace, peace like a river, and righteousness like the waves of the sea; an ever-flowing peace, and one righteous act after another as one wave follows another in quick succession. When are we exhorted to acquaint ourselves with the Lord? Acquaint now thyself with him. Now is the accepted time.

And thereby good shall come unto thee. Yes; and the amount of good that shall come unto us in consequence of an acquaintance with the Lord is unspeakably great. Words cannot express it. Pen cannot paint it; and the amount of evil we escape cannot be told. Who that has had an acquaintance with him but longs for a more intimate acquaintance, a closer union and communion and fellowship with him?

I inclose a small sum as a thank-offering to the Lord for the good that I have received at his hand. Three of my beloved daughters have been converted to a saving knowledge of the truth. Two of them are safely sleeping in Jesus, awaiting the sound of the trump of God to call them forth to glorious immortality. I. G. CAMP.