August 15: Delight and Goodwill.
The Pleasures That Separate Us From God.
But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.--1 Timothy 5:6, NIV
THOSE WHO LOVE PLEASURE may keep up a form of godliness, but they have no vital connections with God. Their faith is dead, their zeal has departed.--Messages to Young People, 141.
Though church members, they are unconverted. They may take part in the church service, they may chant the psalm, "As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God" {Psalm 42:1}; but they testify to a falsehood. They are no more righteous in God's sight than is the veriest sinner. The soul that longs after the excitement of worldly pleasure, the mind that is full of love for display, cannot serve God....Such a one has no inclination to war against the lust of the flesh. He longs to indulge appetite. He chooses the atmosphere of sin.--Christ's Object Lessons, 269.
Professed Christians, worldly Christians, are unacquainted with heavenly things. They will never be brought to the gates of the New Jerusalem to engage in exercises which have not hitherto specially interested them. They have not trained their minds to delight in devotion and in meditation upon things of God and heaven. How, then, can they engage in the services of heaven? how to delight in the spiritual, the pure, the holy in heaven, when it was not a special delight to them upon earth?--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, 265.
Why, my soul, are downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
--Psalm 42:11, NIV
The Pleasures That Separate Us From God.
But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.--1 Timothy 5:6, NIV
THOSE WHO LOVE PLEASURE may keep up a form of godliness, but they have no vital connections with God. Their faith is dead, their zeal has departed.--Messages to Young People, 141.
Though church members, they are unconverted. They may take part in the church service, they may chant the psalm, "As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God" {Psalm 42:1}; but they testify to a falsehood. They are no more righteous in God's sight than is the veriest sinner. The soul that longs after the excitement of worldly pleasure, the mind that is full of love for display, cannot serve God....Such a one has no inclination to war against the lust of the flesh. He longs to indulge appetite. He chooses the atmosphere of sin.--Christ's Object Lessons, 269.
Professed Christians, worldly Christians, are unacquainted with heavenly things. They will never be brought to the gates of the New Jerusalem to engage in exercises which have not hitherto specially interested them. They have not trained their minds to delight in devotion and in meditation upon things of God and heaven. How, then, can they engage in the services of heaven? how to delight in the spiritual, the pure, the holy in heaven, when it was not a special delight to them upon earth?--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, 265.
Why, my soul, are downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
--Psalm 42:11, NIV
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