A Good Understanding by Mrs. H. D. Johns

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 3, 1874

A Good Understanding.

By Mrs. H. D. Johns

I HAVE often heard people say, “Why are you Seventh-day Adventists so confident that you are right? There are a great many denominations, and they believe differently, and yet each professes to have the truth; people cannot all see alike; they have as good a right to their belief as you have to yours, and why are they not just as likely to be right?” I remember when I thought so, too; but there is one passage in the Bible which threw some light on the subject to my mind. It is found in the 111th psalm, “A good understanding have all they that do His commandments.” Here, then, is a good reason why commandment-keepers are more likely to have the truth than any other people, because they have a “good understanding;” and it is quite evident that a good understanding is a blessing which is granted them, because they keep his commandments. I believe it would be a good rule for those who are delaying to keep the Sabbath because they do not understand every point of our faith to “do his commandments” and pray in faith for light, and they will have that good understanding, which will enable them to discern light from darkness and error from truth. To keep all His commandments should be our earnest effort.

MRS. H. D. JOHNS.