p. 16 | Without Questioning

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 16, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 19.

Without Questioning.

Faith accepts God's word of promise or precept without question. It may properly question as to whether the requirement or promise is from God; but having that evidence, faith responds; and the soul that longs to do God's will will ever have the evidence in time of testing. The majority of men want God's blessing, but they want it in their own way. But it is impossible to so obtain or retain God's blessing. Selfishness turns the blessing to a curse. The blessing designed for good, works out evil. The man who adds to or subtracts from the promises of God, does not have God's promises, but his own poor conception of God's goodness. He who seeks to mold or change or curtail one of God's commandments, does not possess God's precept, but one of his own making. He has limited God's wisdom by his own. He has said that God's law needs amending, His wisdom supplementing. He who seeks to obey nine precepts out of the ten of the Decalogue, does so not to please God, but to please himself. The real test of faith always turns over that which is contrary to carnal desire and wisdom.