ABIDETH FOREVER by W. J. Knox-Little

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 20, 1901

“ABIDETH FOREVER.”

By W. J. Knox-Little

The “glory of man” is “as the flower of the grass.” Yes, but “the Word of the Lord abideth forever.” The Word of the Lord! What do we mean by the Word of the Lord? When we speak of the word of a man, we mean his very thought, clothed in appropriate garb and equipped with suitable equipments to enable it to pass from mind to mind. When we speak of the Word of the Lord, we mean the very thought of the living God, sent forth to reach the mind, and to dwell in the heart, and to become part of the life of His creature; and as it comes from the Infinite, the Eternal, it partakes of His truth, His eternity, His infinity. By it man knows God, and “this is life eternal,” this is a permanent possession, this is a lasting heritage, “to know Thee, the true God.” 1. The moral law abideth forever. Right is right, and wrong is wrong, by an absolute decree. Tho all appearances are against it, “tho hand join in hand”—appearances are one thing, and reality quite another—right in the long run must prevail, and “wickedness shall not go unpunished.” . . . 2. The Bible in its sacred and unapproached pre-eminence abideth forever. It lives on because it has in it the life and thought of the unchanging God, felt in serious moments to be of the last importance for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for consolation to the soul in the journey of life.—W. J. Knox-Little, The Journey of Life.