Gold Nugget 310 - Choice Demanded
Our life is hourly a choice of alternatives. We can go to the right or to the left. Choice is incessantly demanded, and the issues of our choice are momentous. …
Necessity requires that we should be either better or worse. You cannot dwell for an hour in the society of a good man, and continue in the former state of feeling. The fire that does not melt, hardens. To know God’s will, and not to do it, inflicts unspeakable mischief upon the soul. Resistance of inward convictions begets callosity of heart, and blast the budding life of conscience. Wanton treason against God is incipient hell. It is the darkening of the understanding, and the enslavement of the will. No blacker curse can enwrap a man than this. …
The visible universe is a projection of God’s thought, and all the forces of nature are the agents of God. We find upon this globe elements that minister to our development and strength and joy. We find also elements that are repulsive, menacing, and destructive. The cloud-capped peaks may draw around us the lightenings of vengeance, or may melt the laden cloud and distil showers of blessing. … We may find “sermons in stones,” lessons in leaves, counsels in running brooks.
The Pulpit Commentary, Deuteronomy p. 209, Deuteronomy 9:26-32, (D. Davies)
Gold Nugget 310
Choice Demanded
