Sister Gibson on Obedience, Testimonies, and Health Reform
SISTER S. E. GIBSON writes from Olmstead Co.: I desire ever to be enabled to say with the psalmist, “How love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.” How good it is to keep the commandments of God; and they are not grievous. I realize in some degree the beauty of those blessed words, spoken by our divine Lord, “My yoke is easy, and my burden light.” Yes, it is even so. When by the eye of faith we can see Jesus, every burden is made light; every cross is sweet to lift. I rejoice in the evidence that the good work is going on. May it continue to deepen and widen till all that are willing to be led by the Holy Spirit shall be gathered into the fold. And let us, who have seen the light, strive to walk in it; yea, strive, remembering that Jesus said, “Many shall seek to enter in, but shall not be able.” Does not that imply that they will not seek with sufficient earnestness? The blessing is promised to the doers of the Lord’s will, and not to the hearers only. I thank the Lord for the Testimonies; and, with his help, I mean they shall affect my life, and make me more like the great Pattern. The health and dress reforms are precious to me, and the benefit I have received from them has been beyond price. They have restored me from being a suffering invalid to the enjoyment of excellent health. Praise the Lord! Pray for me, that I may hold out faithful.