When a Man’s Ways Please the Lord

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 19.

When a Man’s Ways Please the Lord

"WHEN a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him." Prov. 16:7. How could it be otherwise? If a man pleases the Lord he will not quarrel with his enemies, and therefore his enemies cannot quarrel with him. More than this, if a man pleases the Lord, he will do to others as he would have them do to him; he will love his neighbor as himself; and therefore his enemies cannot help being at peace with him. He may be "persecuted for righteousness' sake," but even then, as it was with Daniel, his enemies will be able to find nothing against him, except it be "concerning the law of his God." And in that case his enemies are fighting, not against the man, but against God.