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We Cannot Turn Ourselves Alone

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 18, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 3.

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We Cannot Turn Ourselves Alone

By Mrs. Iva F. Cady

MANY good resolutions are made, and then broken because of self-confidence. Trusting in self, we are sure to fail. Are we not told that it is just as impossible for one accustomed to do evil to turn and do good, as it is for the Ethiopian to change his skin, or a leopard his spots?
Yet it is necessary that "the wicked forsake his way" if he would be saved, and it is possible for us to reform our habits of life. The Lord is able to keep us from falling, and to turn us into the right way. So, instead of relying upon self, let us make this our daily prayer to Him: "Turn Thou me, and I shall be turned; for Thou art the Lord my God." Jer. 31: 18.
MRS. IVA F. CADY.