READER OF THOUGHTS
O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thoughts afar off.--Psalm 139:1-2
We see that the world at large have no thoughts of this great day, and many of them do not care to hear anything about it. But we must meet the record of our lives. We must remember that there is a witness to all our works. An eye like a flame of fire beholds us in all our actions of life. Our very thoughts and the intents and purposes of our hearts are laid bare to God's inspection. As the features are produced upon the polished plate of the artist, so are our characters upon the books of record in heaven.
Every one will then discern the influence he had upon his fellow men by his own departure from God's righteousness, to turn them away from the ways of truth and right. Every one then will understand just what he did to dishonor the God of heaven by breaking His law.
Every one who comes forth from the dead when Christ comes in the clouds of heaven, and those who are living, will stand before the judgment seat of Christ. The deeds and acts which we have thought to have been done in secret, where no eye could see, are made known. There was an eye that saw and registered the deeds done by man. (Manuscript 6a, June 27, 1886)
REFLECTION: "Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart"--the human heart, with its conflicting emotions of joy and sorrow; the wandering, wayward heart, which is the abode of so much impurity and deceit. 1 Samuel 16:7. He knows its motives, its very intents and purposes. Go to Him with your soul all stained as it is. Like the psalmist, throw its chambers open to the all-seeing eye, exclaiming, "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." Psalm 139:23, 24. (Steps to Christ, 34-35)
O Lord, You have searched me and known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thoughts afar off.--Psalm 139:1-2
We see that the world at large have no thoughts of this great day, and many of them do not care to hear anything about it. But we must meet the record of our lives. We must remember that there is a witness to all our works. An eye like a flame of fire beholds us in all our actions of life. Our very thoughts and the intents and purposes of our hearts are laid bare to God's inspection. As the features are produced upon the polished plate of the artist, so are our characters upon the books of record in heaven.
Every one will then discern the influence he had upon his fellow men by his own departure from God's righteousness, to turn them away from the ways of truth and right. Every one then will understand just what he did to dishonor the God of heaven by breaking His law.
Every one who comes forth from the dead when Christ comes in the clouds of heaven, and those who are living, will stand before the judgment seat of Christ. The deeds and acts which we have thought to have been done in secret, where no eye could see, are made known. There was an eye that saw and registered the deeds done by man. (Manuscript 6a, June 27, 1886)
REFLECTION: "Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart"--the human heart, with its conflicting emotions of joy and sorrow; the wandering, wayward heart, which is the abode of so much impurity and deceit. 1 Samuel 16:7. He knows its motives, its very intents and purposes. Go to Him with your soul all stained as it is. Like the psalmist, throw its chambers open to the all-seeing eye, exclaiming, "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." Psalm 139:23, 24. (Steps to Christ, 34-35)
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