p. 307 | God’s Standard

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · May 27, 1886

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 20

God’s Standard.

If it be true that every man has his opinion of himself, it is equally true that God has his opinion of every man. These opinions are very likely to differ. That is because we use different measures of value from God. Our scales are different. We put down our moral weight as so much, while God puts it down perhaps as not one-tenth as much, perhaps as absolutely nothing. One of the most important things a man can do is to have his scales adjusted and corrected so as to agree with the scales he will at last be weighed by. God’s word gives us the standard. By that we can figure our weight. It has been said that we are each three men—what we see ourselves to be, what our neighbors see us to be, and what God sees us to be. The three will coincide by and by, and the time when that will happen is called God’s Judgment day.—Independent.

Then “let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into Judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” Eccl. 12:13, 14.