Enjoyment Of The Truth

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for April 3
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Enjoyment Of The Truth

Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to
fear thy name. Ps. 86:11.

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.

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.

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares, pp. 91, 92.