Watchfulness | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 1, 1878

Watchfulness.

NONE of the human race are perfect. Every one has some weak point. There is an unprotected joint in the harness which is what the heel was to the body and vitals of Achilles. We should endeavor to ascertain what our weak point is, and set over it a double guard, for this is the point which the adversary of our souls will assuredly attack, and if we fall, it will be by being overcome here. It is arrant presumption for us to deny our moral weakness or suppose that we can stand fast in integrity aside from Divine aid. Accordingly this aid we should fervently invoke, while we vigilantly watch against all temptations to evil. "Let him who thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall," for his fall may pull down others, and if he is a professed Christian will bring scandal on Christ's religion, and cause his holy name to be blasphemed. If there is anything a Christian should dread, it is to be instrumental of dishonoring Him by whose precious blood he was redeemed, to whom he is laid under the weightiest obligations, and who is "the chief among ten thousand and the one altogether lovely." The words of our Lord to his disciples were, "What I say unto you, I say unto all, watch."—Sel.