p. 306 | Conscience

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 11, 1877

Conscience.

Let us remember that whatever unfits us for religious duties, cools the fervor of our devotions, or indisposes us to read our Bible or to pray; whatever we could not engage in with a perfectly clear conscience; wherever the thought of a suffering Saviour or a holy God, of the hour of death or of the day of judgment, falls like a cold shadow on our enjoyment; the pleasures which we cannot thank God for, and on which we cannot ask his blessing, these are not for us.

Let us never go where we cannot ask God to go with us. Let us never be found where we cannot act as Christ would have us. Let us pass each day as pilgrims consciously on the way to our heavenly inheritance. Let us press after closer communion with Jesus. Let the love of God reign in our hearts; and thus shall we be kept from a thousand snares, and become possessed of a peace and joy to which the worldling is a stranger.