A WORD TO THE BACKSLIDER
By David Paulson
THE master has need of you. He has need of your talents and your training. The devil also wants you. If he cannot get you in one way, he will try another. You are in need of a deeper experience in the things of God. Why not get the real thing instead of the partial thing? Study your Bible on your bended knees. It contains the light of truth, which you need. Dig out the truth from God's word. You will be following the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, and you will be led to the promised land. If you fail to do this, you will lie down in sorrow. You need to fall on the Rock and be broken. You need to confess the years of backsliding and doubt that have come into your life, and like a little child, begin again, as you never knew how before, to get yourself and others ready for the kingdom of God. In the day of God, there is going to be a group of people lost who had supposed they would be among the elect. Their real influence has been such as actually to hinder the work of God in the earth, when they supposed that they were wonderfully improving it. You are going to be among that group, or you are not. It remains for you now to decide. "Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion." And again, "Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings." Jer. 3: 14, 22. And again the Lord says, "I will love them freely: for Mine anger is turned away from him." Hosea 14: 4. DAVID PAULSON.