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Acceptable Obedience

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 29, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 47.

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Acceptable Obedience

THERE is but one way in which it is possible to render to God acceptable obedience, and that is by unqualifiedly submitting to God’s will. We can not do God’s will in our way. It is impossible to obey Him in a spirit of rebellion. A man might refrain from work on the seventh day out of pride or spite, but it would not be obedience to the command, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” True obedience relates to motive as well as act, and the motive power is love; but love always obeys.