OUR CONVERSATION by C. E. Huitt

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 54.

OUR CONVERSATION.

By C. E. Huitt

BY C. E. HUITT.

"SEEING then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness." 2 Peter 3: 11. How true the above scripture, and how careful we should be in our conversation, not only with the ungodly, but with those also who profess Christ! By our words as well as our works should we show to the world that we are fully trusting in the dear Saviour, who came all the way from heaven to seek and to save lost and fallen man.

Matthew's gospel tells us that every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment, for by our words shall we be justified, and by our words we shall be condemned. If we earnestly seek God for pure thoughts, clean hearts, and wisdom and knowledge to guide us into all truth, he is ever ready to hear our prayer and give us just what we need. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." James 1:5. But we are told to ask in faith, and not waver; for by wavering we cannot expect to obtain anything from the Lord. How many times we ask God for help and do not receive it, and the cause is that we simply do not have the faith we should have!

We do not seek God as earnestly as we should. How important then that we have faith, and that we add to our faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity! "For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." 2 Peter 1: 8.

Elberton, Wash.