KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD.
By John Nevins Andrews
IF we would be kept by God's power we must yield to his power. He who would be kept from any sin must consent to abandon all sin. No man can be allowed to select the sins which he will commit and those which he will abandon. No man can be allowed to choose to follow the sins which he counts respectable, and expect to be kept from the sins which he esteems disgraceful. There are many men who would be glad to be kept from some disreputable sin, but they are unwilling to turn from all iniquity. They who put themselves into God's hands for keeping, submit soul, body, will, and everything they have and are, to the divine keeping; and to them the promise is made good, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you." Man must have a master. If he will not yield to God he must yield to Satan. It is only when he has accepted the Lord as his head and king, that he is safe under his protection from the wrath and fury of the adversary.