MAKETH FLESH HIS ARM by August Rasmussen

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 22, 1877

MAKETH FLESH HIS ARM.

By August Rasmussen

This is a sin very generally committed when the Sabbath question comes up. The great majority say, We cannot keep the Sabbath; for if we do, we shall lose our friends; and we shall lose our employment. Poor weak people generally trust more in a human being than in God.

But “it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.” Ps. 118:8. “Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.” “Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is; for he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green: and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.” Jer. 17:5, 7, 8. AUGUST RASMUSSEN.