FW: Fwd: Gems From My Reading - 5503

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From: "Norman Hiebert" <njhiebert@sympatico.ca>
Sent: 23 April, 2014 9:43 PM
Subject: Fwd: Gems From My Reading - 5503

"Be of good cheer."

"Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;

and to depart from evil is understanding."

(Job 28:28) 

Here, then, is the divine secret of wisdom: "The fear of the Lord."  

This sets the conscience directly in the presence of God, which is its only true place.

The object of Satan is to keep the conscience out of this place - 

to bring it under the power and authority of man - 

to lead it into subjection to the commandments and doctrines of men - 

to thrust in something between the conscience and the authority of Christ the Lord, 

it matters not what it is; it may be a creed or a confession containing a quantity of truth, - 

it may be the opinion of a man or a set of men - 

the judgment of some favourite teacher, - 

anything, in short, to come in and usurp, in the heart, 

the place which belongs to God's Word alone.

This is a terrible snare, and a stumbling-block - 

a most serious hindrance to our progress in the ways of the Lord.

God's Word must rule me - 

God's pure and simple Word, not man's interpretation thereof.  

No doubt, God may use a man to unfold that Word to my soul; 

but then it is not man's unfolding of God's Word that rules me, 

but God's Word by man unfolded.  

This is of all importance.  

We must be exclusively taught and exclusively governed by the 

Word of the living God.  

(C.H. Mackintosh)

N.J. Hiebert - 5503