p. 9 | How Can God Do It?

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 31, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 21.

How Can God Do It?

How can God change a sinner into a saint? How can He make a drunkard a sober man? How can He make the covetous man generous?

Never mind the how; accept the great fact. He can do it; for He has done it. You may not be able to understand just how the mighty power of God can change a heart that loves sin to one that hates sin; from one that does evil to one that does righteousness. Yet is He able.

You can not tell why and how one seed brings forth large, gorgeous, red flowers, and how a very similar seed in appearance, planted in the same soil, warmed by the same sun, watered by the same rain, will bring forth a tiny white flower. It is the power and wisdom of God which thus transmutes soil to flower. So God will take you, all unlovely as you are in His sight, and make you “to the praise of the glory of His grace.” “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.” Isa. 55:7. He will create anew the heart, and make new men and women in Christ Jesus. O soul, will you not let Him do the work?