STEPS TOWARD GOD by Rev. Andrew Whyte, D.D.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 29, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 39.

STEPS TOWARD GOD.

By Rev. Andrew Whyte, D.D.

YOUR first step in the direction of God is not taken when you put on your Sabbath clothes and walk demurely into your pew. No; but it is taken when you put humility upon your proud heart, and fill your hot heart full of meekness, resignation, and quietness, and contrition, and a broken, heavenly, holy heart. To hold your peace when you are reproved is a direct and sure step toward God. To be silent when you suffer wrong—God takes at that great moment a great step of His toward you. To let a slight, an insult, a blow, a scoff, a sneer fall on your head like an excellent oil, and on your heart like your true desert—“with that man will I dwell,” says the God of Israel by his prophet.—Rev. Andrew Whyte, D.D.