p. 4 | BACKSLIDING FROM GOD by Moody

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 24, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 12.

BACKSLIDING FROM GOD.

By Moody

Now there is one thing to which we wish to call the attention of backsliders, and that is, that the Lord never forsook them, but that they forsook Him. The Lord never left them, but they left Him. And this, too, without any cause. He says: “What iniquity have your fathers found in Me, that they are gone far from Me?” Is not God the same to-day as when you came to Him first? Has God changed? Men are apt to think that God has changed; but the fault is with them. Backslider, I would ask you, “What iniquity is there in God, that you have left Him and gone far from Him?” You have, He says, hewed out to yourselves broken cisterns that hold no water. The world can not satisfy the new nature. No earthly well can satisfy the soul that has become a partaker of the heavenly nature. Honor, wealth, and the pleasures of this world, will not satisfy those who, having tasted the water of life, have gone astray, seeking refreshment at the world’s fountains. Earthly wells will get dry. They can not quench spiritual thirst.—Moody.