Self-Deception | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 11, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 47.

Self-Deception.

A MAN is never in a kindlier mood than when he is well satisfied with himself. If he thinks he has done a good thing, he is ready to smile on those about him, and to express his good wishes to them. And a man is never more inclined to think well of his own course than when he has acted according to his own judgment, and conformed his course to his own standard. He who looks outside of himself for a rule of action, and recognizes God's law as the standard, and Christ as his example, is sure to see that he has not yet come up to the full measure of well-doing; but if he thinks of no higher standard than his own judgment can form, he can look down on that with complacency, and be sure he has reached it without half trying. Then is the time for him to say to anybody and everybody, "Blessed be thou of the Lord; I have performed the commandment of the Lord;" and I hope you will try to do as well.—Sel.