Examine Yourselves

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Sep 13, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 37.

Examine Yourselves

"Examine yourselves," says the Word, "whether ye be in the faith." Judas was a professed follower of Jesus Christ; but circumstances proved that he was not "in the faith." There is a vast difference between professing, and actually being the thing we profess. So we should examine our deeds, our motives, our thoughts, in the light of God's revealed test of human character, His law. We are continually meeting with experiences that are testing and proving us. It is by continual testing that one becomes purified. Christ is represented in the Word as a purifier of silver, and the final great test will prove whether we are pure metal, or mixed with baser alloy, or composed largely or wholly of dross. So let the testing process go on now, that the purifying may be going on in us, lest that final test pronounce us only base metal and dross.