Some Shall Depart From the Faith by C. H. Bliss

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 16, 1914

"Some Shall Depart From the Faith"

By C. H. Bliss

C. H. BLISS

It is a very easy matter for one whom God has blessed and prospered to any great extent to forget the rock whence he is hewn, and the "hole of the pit" whence he is digged. Sometimes the soul is lifted up unto vanity, and one imagines himself to be something when he is nothing. Then the mind is led off into vain speculations, and the Spirit of God is supplanted by the spirit of the evil one. So subtle is the working of the enemy, who transforms himself into "an angel of light," that darkness is changed into light, and the deceived one really believes that he has new light.

It is then that such souls often "kindle a fire," and walk in the light of their fire and in the sparks they have kindled. See Isa. 50:11. When such a one awakes and sees his real condition before God, he may truly say, "I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing." Ps. 69:2.

But to him who realizes that he is sinking, a kind, loving Saviour holds out a helping hand, as he did to Peter, and bids him look up. If he accepts the proffered help, with the psalmist he may say, "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings." Ps. 40:2. Truly he made us, and not we ourselves, and "those that walk in pride he is able to abase." Even Job after his trying experience could say, "Behold I am vile; what shall I answer thee?" "I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes."