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Our Infallible Judge

Know the God of your father, and serve him with a loyal heart and with a
willing mind; for the Lord searches all hearts and understands all the
intent of the thoughts. 1 Chron. 28:9, NKJV.

The Lord is exact and infallible in His comprehension. He understands the
working of the human mind, the active principles of the human agents He has
formed, just how they will be moved upon by the objects that come before
them, and in what manner they will act under every temptation that can try
them and in every circumstance in which they are placed. "The ways of man
are before the eyes of the Lord, and He pondereth all his goings" (Prov.
5:21). "The eyes of the Lord are in every place" (Prov. 15:3). "He looketh
to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven" (Job 28:24).
"The Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of
the thoughts" (1 Chron. 28:9). He knows the things that come into our minds,
every one of them. . . . God pities the poor, self-deceived souls who are
trampling upon His truth. Let the wheat and the tares grow together until
the harvest. Pity and deplore the blindness of the minds that are under the
dominion of Satan, but restrain your own wrath and passion, and do not pass
your judgment upon them. Leave in God's hands the despisers of His truth.
The right and liberty of passing judgment upon others is not given to you.
It was not given to Moses to pronounce judgment against rebellious Israel.
The glaring weakness of His agents, as displayed by Moses, will bring its
reward. . . .

God's workmen must continue to bear the blame of being troublers of Israel,
but they are not at liberty to make such assertions true. Go not into the
assembly of scoffers, sit not in the seat of the scorners, keep away from
the gatherings of those who will make your presence an occasion to speak to
you humiliating things, and will pour contempt upon your faith. Have no
controversy with these men. You have not to do with men only, but with Satan
and his synagogue. When compelled to meet them, remember the Saviour's
words, "I send you forth as lambs among wolves." The Lord must be your
dependence; He will clothe you with a divine panoply, and His Holy Spirit
will influence your mind and heart so that your voice shall not catch the
notes of the baying of the wolves.

We are never to forget that we are representatives of Christ. We are to use
no carnal weapons when unbelieving and deluded souls come among us. . . .
Not an unkind or discourteous word, defensive or offensive, should escape
our lips or be traced by our pen. When reviled, we are not to revile again.
"This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith" (1 John 5:4)
(letter 18, 1895).

>From Lift Him Up - Page 324

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