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Which Captain?, March 15
For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even
unto death.
Psalm 48:14
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We are all under one or the other of two great captains. One, the
Creator of man and of the world, is the greatest of all. All owe Him the
allegiance of their whole being, the devotion of their entire affection. If the
mind is given to His control, and if God has the molding and developing of
the powers of the mind, new moral power will be received daily from the
Source of all wisdom and all strength. Moral blessings and divine beauties
will reward the efforts of everyone whose mind is heaven bent. We may
grasp revelations—heavenly beauties—that lie beyond the short vision of
the worldling, that outshine the imagination of the greatest mind....
Satan is the leader of the worldly.... His highest aim is to gather under
his banner the majority of the world, that numbers may stand against the
power of righteousness and eternal truth. Talent and ability given of God
to be devoted to His service, are laid at the feet of the great rebel of God’s
government....
While the worldly wise is skimming along the surface, grasping the
things of sight and sense, the one who fears and reveres God is reaching
into eternity, penetrating the deepest recesses and gathering the knowledge
and riches that are as enduring as eternity. Justice, honor, love, and
truth are the attributes of God’s throne. They are the principles of His
government.... These are jewels to be sought after and cherished for time
and for eternity....
To walk the world a pure man of untarnished morals, bearing the
sacred principles of truth in your heart, its influence seen in the acts of
your life; to live uncorrupted by the baseness, falsity, and dishonesty of a
world which must soon be purified of its moral corruption by the fires of
God’s retributive justice, is to be a man whose record is immortalized in
heaven, honored among the pure angels who weigh and appreciate moral
worth. This is what it is to be a man of God.
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