What Is Life to You? by Mrs. D. W. Myers

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 3, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 39.

What Is Life to You?

By Mrs. D. W. Myers

HOW are you wearing this life away? Are you care-free and reckless, not believing in eternal life, and saying to yourself, “This is all of life, and when I am dead some one else will take my place, and so on and on to eternity”? If this is the case, my dear friend, let me ask you a few questions. What do you think of the Bible? And what better book can you give me in exchange? And do you believe it to be the Word of God?

“O,” you will say, “some of it is all right.” Now why should parts of the Bible be all right, and others not? Either ALL is fake, or it is all good. Can not God, the Creator of all things, protect His own Book, His Word, so that it should not be corrupted or perverted?

I tell you, dear reader, it is Satan putting these doubts into your heart. Do you listen to him? He is a liar. Did he not lie to Eve when he told her that she would not surely die even tho she disobeyed God and ate of the forbidden fruit? Satan now speaks in your heart and tells you not to partake of the fruit of life—not to believe on our Lord Jesus Christ, lest you should be converted and live. If he deceived our first parents, who were pure of heart and innocent of mind, how much more can he deceive us, who are spiritually blinded, and inclined to sin and unrighteousness?

Satan is ever present with us. We may say that God is at our right hand, while Satan is close beside us on the left. He puts evil desires into our hearts, puts doubts into our mind concerning good things, is quick to throw obstacles into our path when we would do good, and stirs our anger every time we allow him to rule our disposition.

One thing we must realize: we are sure to serve ONE master. Either God is our Master to righteousness and glory, or the devil is our master to unrighteousness and condemnation. We are destined to be either a blessing or a curse. We can not stop at a certain degree of evil; we keep going down, down, to the bottomless pit, or else we are advancing in the divine life.

Reader, on which side are you? This is no trifling question. On it depends our future life. Jesus said, “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.” Matt. 7:13. Read how entreatingly the Lord pleads with you: “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: tho your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; tho they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isa. 1:18.

Then come to Jesus! Cast your burden of sin at His feet. He will not turn you away. No sin is so great that the Lord can not pardon. Jesus said, “They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.” Matt. 9:12. Take Him at His word. Come to Him to-day. Give yourself up to do His will, “which is our reasonable service;” and when Jesus comes with ten thousand of His saints, He will say to you, “Come, ye blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” Matt. 25:31-34.