“God
is "the Holy One" Isaiah
43:3 He alone is perfectly holy: "The heavens are not clean in his
sight" Job 15:15
Who could form
laws to guide men's hearts or prepare rewards to reach their souls and
consciences? An earthly king would be ridiculed if he made a law that his
subjects love him or confess their unfaithful thoughts. And further, what
mortal ruler could ever assume that he could keep the hearts and thoughts of
men within his jurisdiction?
Throughout the
years men have schemed to plan acts of murder but were attacked by their own
consciences before anyone could accuse them. Their surrender came about not
because of a law but because they dreaded the arrest of their conscience for
violating God's law. For this law not only restrains hands from killing but
also binds hearts from cursing. It rules in the consciences of vile men like a
bit that God rides the most stubborn sinners with, and curbs them so they can
never completely shake it out of their mouths.
God is "the
Holy One Isaiah 43:3. He alone is perfectly holy: "The heavens are not
clean in his sight Job 15:15And as God is the only holy Person, so the
Scripture is the only holy book. Dregs appear in even the holiest writings of
the sincerest men when they have stood awhile under the observation of a
critical eye. Scripture too has been exposed to the view of all sorts of men
yet can never have the least impurity. It is so pure that it makes filthy souls
clean: "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth" John
17:17.. There is nothing in Scripture to feed the flesh or afford fuel to any
lust. It puts every sin to the sword and strikes through the loins of all sinners,
affluent or penniless: "To be carnally minded is death; but to be
spiritually minded is life and peace" Romans 8:6. Athenagoras well said,
"No man can be wicked that is a Christian, unless he be a hypocrite."
Quoted material from,
”The Christian in Complete Armour Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare” by
Gurnall and James S Bell. http://www.moodypublishers.com/pub_productDetail.aspx?id=41823&pid=53617
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