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are still going toward the west, you have never reached it. Yet such is the figure used by God to denote the distance to which He has removed the transgressions of the pardoned soul. For given sins will never rise, up in judgment against the sinner. The Lord of mercy has cast them “behind His back,” He has flung them “into the depths of the sea,” He will remember them against us “no more for ever.” How widely different from the partial forgiveness which we sometimes mete out to those who have offended against ourselves! Ought not we, who have been thus “much forgiven,” to love the Pardoner much? Ought we not also to treat our fellow sinners with a more divine, because a more generous and forgetful, mercy? Need we fear such a God, save with a filial fear; a fear that dreads, not to provoke His wrath with our misdeeds, but to grieve His loving heart? M arch 14. if.&And Orpah kissed . . : .'but Ruth clave."—Ruth 1:14. TRUE loyalty consists, not in kissing, but in cleaving. Orpah made a demonstration*of affection for her mother-in-law: Ruth was willing to follow her into exile and to share her poverty. Many persons are willing to kiss Christ who are not ready to cleave unto Him. They make great professions of attachment, but they are unprepared to follow Him when He would lead them through some valley of humiliation or up some hill of shame. So long as their religion costs them little and brings them much, none can be more devout; let them be called upon to make sacrifices, and their “love” at once grows cold. While they are allowed to pitch their tents among their chosen com panions in the sunny land of Moab, they will talk loudly of -what they are ready to dp and to endure for their Master’s sake; but to . forsake all and follow Him, they know not precisely whither; to share His poverty and His cross;—that is asking too muclv Professions that do not lead to practice are utterly value less. Moreover such selfishness not only dishonors those who manifest it, but defeats its own ends. Orpah returned into the land of Moab and there, historically, she perished; nothing more is heard of her: Ruth followed Naomi with true affection, gave her name to one of the books of the Bible, became the grand mother of David, and had the honor of being an ancestress of the Lord Christ. LOT never made a greater mistake than when he trusted his eyes and decided upon a dwelling place without asking the Divine guidance. He chose the plain of Jordan because it prom ised him prosperity and ease, with no thought as to the moral atmosphere into which he was taking himself and his family. The result was unparalleled disaster. He lost his wife and became an exile and a pauper. “In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths,” but for men to “walk after the imagination of their evil heart,” is to take the sure road to disaster and to ruin. We need constantly to pray: “Guide me, O' Thou great JEHOVAH, Pilgrim through this barren land” ; nor less do we need to offer the petition when our feet are leading us toward a land that is not “barren,” but “well watered and fertile.” What appears, to our uninstructed eyes like “the garden of the LORD,” may easily prove a Sodom of wickedness, a veritable City of Destruction. The attitude of the Christian heart should ever be': /M arch 15. “Lot chose him. all the. plain of Jordan." — Gen. 13:11. “But the love of God is broader Than the measure of man’s mind; And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind.”
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“I dare not choose my lot; I would not, if I might; Choose Thou for me, my God; So shall I walk aright.”
B I O L A B O O K R O O M Bible Institute, Los Angeles, Cal.
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