August 13, 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
HOW ONE LOSES THE POWER HE ONCE HAD TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN TRUTH AND ERROR
“Whenever the CAUSE exists, the same RESULTS will follow He who deliberately STIFLES his convictions of duty because it INTERFERES with his inclinations, will FINALLY lose the power to distinguish between truth and error.”
“The understanding becomes DARKENED, the conscience CALLOUS, the heart HARDENED, and the soul is SEPARATED from God. Where the message of divine truth is SPURNED or SLIGHTED, there the [generic] church will be enshrouded in darkness; faith and love grow cold, and estrangement and dissension enter. Church members center their interests and energies in WORLDLY pursuits, and sinners become HARDENED in their impenitence.”
E. G. White, The Great Controversy, 1911 ed., p. 379.
Never dare presume on God’s mercy, kindness, long suffering, gentleness, meekness and love because He never ceases to be such when He exercises His righteousness and justice. Never tamper with your conscience in order to shirk conviction of duty towards God first, then to your fellowmen. Eve and Adam “experimented” with what they thought was a seemingly “slight deviation” from the Creator’s clear and simple command. The consequence and effect of that first human sin and error of yielding to temptation opened the floodgates of “hell” upon mankind since then till now! Remember Cause and Effect is unbending and unchanging regardless change in time and place, seasons and circumstances, transcending generations. Of such is genuine faith, loyalty, trust, love and obedience to God as empowered by His grace.
God bless all! NMF