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Enjoyment of the Truth, January 27
Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart
to fear thy name.
Psalm 86:11
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Say with your whole heart, “I will walk in Thy truth.” Every resolution
expressed in the fear of God will give strength to purpose and to faith. It
will tend to stimulate and to humble, to strengthen and confirm. “I will
walk in thy truth.” Truth deserves our confidence none the less because
the world is flooded with fables. Because error and counterfeit are in
circulation it only evidences the fact that there is truth, genuine truth,
somewhere....
It is not enough for us to hear the truth only. God requires of us
obedience. “Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.”
Luke 11:28
. “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.”
John 13:17
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We may walk in the enjoyment of the truth. It need not be to us a yoke
of bondage, but a consolation, a message to us of glad tidings of great joy,
animating our hearts and causing us to make melody in our hearts unto
God. Through patience and comfort of the Scriptures we have hope. The
Christian hope is not gloomy, comfortless. Oh, no, no. It does not shut us
up in a prison of doubts and fears. The truth makes free those who love
and are sanctified through it. They walk in the glorious liberty of the sons
of God.
We who claim to believe the truth should reveal its fruits in our words
and character. We are to be far advanced in a knowledge of Jesus Christ,
in the reception of His love for God and for our neighbor, in order to have
the sunlight of heaven shining in our daily life. Truth must reach down
to the deepest recesses of the soul, and cleanse away everything unlike
the spirit of Christ, and the vacuum be supplied by the attributes of His
character who was pure and holy and undefiled, that all the springs of the
heart may be as flowers, fragrant with perfume, a sweet-smelling savor, a
savor of life unto life.
It is truth enshrined in the soul that makes one a man of God.
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