EARNESTNESS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1893

EARNESTNESS.

By Editor

The reason people don't get deeper and more settled experiences is because they don't get in earnest. They don't search after God as for hid treasures. They don't hunger and thirst and pant after God as the hart panteth after the water brooks. One man, in telling his experience after going without water for several days, said that every pore in his body seemed to be a gaping mouth, and all were crying for water. When we get to thirsting after God in this way, nothing that God may ask will seem hard, and we will go right through and get a clear experience, one that will stand every test. Get in earnest.

Because a person feels touched by the Spirit occasionally is no sign that he is in a state of salvation. He may have enjoyed a good experience once, but by becoming indifferent, he may lose the witness of his acceptance with God. He then takes these occasional touches and meltings of the Spirit as evidence that he is right with God. How deceiving! We must have a personal, conclusive, definite evidence that we are accepted of God. This is brought by the witness of the Spirit constantly to our hearts. Are you saved? How do you know it?—The Firebrand.