Resolution Against Sin

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Sep 13, 1877

Resolution Against Sin

Oh ! how irresolute a man often is concerning a sin which he knows to be a sin, but which enchants him with its sweetness. Ah ! how a man will say, “I must give it up but I cannot !” Sin dies hard ; it makes a hundred excuses for itself, and pleads, “Is it not a little one? Is it not a sweet one?” Oh, Lord, then give me strength of resolution, and when I know that a thing is wrong, help me to have done with it ; and when I perceive an action to be right, help me to make haste and delay not to keep thy commandments. Oh, my Lord, may I never try to patch up a peace between my conscience and myself by trimming and compromising. If I know a thing to be thy will, may I never parley nor question ; for this is to rebel. The spirit that parleys is the essence of high treason. —Spurgeon.