Doing the Word | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 46.

Doing the Word.

It will avail nothing to hear the truth unless we obey it. The word spoken will bring us no profit, no advantage, unless we reduce it to practice. It must be seed in our hearts which will spring up and bear fruit in our lives. We may store it away and treasure it carefully in our memories and be in no way benefited thereby. There is needed a rich soil, such as the human heart furnishes, and the warm sunlight and awakening showers given by the gracious action of the Holy Spirit in order that the seed may grow and bring forth fruit. These influences we are sure to find in honest effort to obey the truth as it is made known to us; in putting into practice the principles inculcated, and in doing the duties enjoined upon us. The word of God is a mirror in which we may see portrayed the features of our characters. It is of no advantage to look therein unless we remember what we see. No more will it profit us to learn the will of God unless we do it. We must be doers, as well as hearers, if we would be prepared to give an account of our hearing with joy and not with grief.—Sel.