95. A QUESTION OF CONSCIENCE.
By Editor
If a person humbly and honestly seeks God for wisdom and guidance to do a certain thing, truly desiring to do nothing to injure the cause of God, will He leave him to himself, or turn him over to the adversary? Many questions similar to the above are asked, to which no definite answer can be given by man, because man does not know all the facts having a bearing on the case. This we may say with assurance, God will leave no one to himself or to Satan who fully trusts in him. God's "ways are ways of pleasantness," and all his "paths are peace." But the Lord may not have wanted the person to do the certain thing. Sometimes we wish a certain thing done, and we persuade ourselves that we are the one to do it, though we are not, and then we ask God for wisdom to do it. We may have started on a wrong principle in the first place. On this we may settle, God does nothing wrong; he does all things right; he will always keep his word. If we fail, it is our fault not his. In our blindness we may not see our fault; it may be farther back than we wish to look; but if there be fault, it is with us not God. Yet, after all, what we may call failures or mistakes may in God's wisdom be success. It is ever safe to trust God. See Isa. 45 : 19; Rom. 9 : 33. If in our human wisdom we have made mistakes, let us confess the mistakes to God and to those directly affected by them, and then leave them with him. He will take care of all results. If some will hold hard feelings over mistakes we have made, but have tried to rectify, we cannot help that. God will see that his cause does not suffer by our repented-of and forsaken mistakes.