Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Hawtin George R.
Title : The abrahamic covenant
Year : 1988

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In God's dear book many wonderful things have been written which are seldom taught or even mentioned among the Christian congregations of our day. Truths, which are pointed, plain, and tremendously vital to spiritual understanding, are passed by unnoticed and unmentioned as things irrelevant and inconsequential. Promises, prophecies, covenants and facts which are vital to the age in which we live fill the pages of Holy Writ, yet they go totally ignored by professing multitudes, counted as inapplicable old wives fables and rejected out of hand without a pretext of sincere investigation. It is with regret that I myself confess that in bygone days, while still in bondage to the sectarian systems, I rejected without thorough investigation truth, which I now know to be pertinent to all spiritual growth and understanding. Like so many others, I was quick to respond with accredited answers to the questions raised, vainly imagining that such eternal verities could be disposed of by the threadbare answers of tradition. All of God's word is intended to be understood, and though truth is usually presented in such a way that it is foolishness to the natural man and he cannot understand it, that same truth blazes as the noonday sun upon the path of him who with an open and contrite heart cries continually, "Open mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law." Only then do we know that the invisible things of Him from the foundation of the world are clearly seen. Truth so vital to us all has been ignored and prejudiced against by the abstruse and slanted minds of those who believe not. So plain, in fact, has God made these blessed truths that, had not scholars and churchmen turned them completely upside down and inside out, they would have been seen and recognized by the multitudes of mankind centuries ago. In these days, when multitudes are turning away from the truth and their minds are being turned to fables, we would do well to remember that the Bible is forever the word of God. It does not simply contain the word of God; it is the word of God, and if it be believed, we will find within its sacred records all the truth necessary for us to lay firm hold on God's promises and the hopes that are clearly set before us. The Christian church as we know it has been living in a fools' paradise, propounding pet doctrines, arguing the pros and cons of theories, but almost completely overlooking the eternal purpose of Him who from the foundations of the ages "worketh all things after the counsel of His own will." Oh, for the hour when all creation will grasp the eternal message, "From Him everything comes, by Him everything exists, and in Him everything ends!" It will be a blissful day for you, my brother, my sister, when first your soul becomes thrilled with the revelation that God, before ever the world began or ever the ages were formed, looked forth from His temple of wisdom and understanding to chart with infinite care the course and purpose of every age. With omnipotent power He guides and sustains them according to the purpose of His own will. No purpose ordained by God from the beginning can possibly go astray or be hindered by the efforts of devil or man. All comes from Him, all exists by Him, and all ends in Him. ...