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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

Honor God
Faith's Checkbook

March 4

Honor God

"Them that honor Me I will honor" (1 Samuel 2:30).

Do I make the honor of God the great object of my life and the rule of my
conduct? If so, He will honor me. I may for a while receive no honor from man,
but God will Himself put honor upon me in the most effectual manner. In the end
it will be found the surest way to honor to be willing to be put to shame for
conscience' sake.

Eli had not honored the LORD by ruling his household well, and his sons had not
honored the LORD by behavior worthy of their sacred office, and therefore the
LORD did not honor them but took the high priesthood out of their family and
made young Samuel to be ruler in the land instead of any of their line. If I
would have my family ennobled, I must honor the LORD in all things. God may
allow the wicked to win worldly honors; but the dignity which He Himself gives,
even glory, honor, and immortality, He reserves for those who by holy obedience
take care to honor Him.

What can I do this day to honor the LORD? I will promote His glory by my spoken
testimony and by my practical obedience, I will also honor Him with my
substance and by offering to Him some special service. Let me sit down and
think how I can honor Him, since He will honor me.

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Human guidance?

(from Winslow's, "The Fragrance of Christ's Name")

We have need to be on our watch against the powerful influence of spiritual
mentors, lest, fascinated by the fame of some popular leader, we become the
willing dupes of a childish superstition, or the blind followers of a fatal
error.

Do not take your views of Divine truth from man; draw them primarily from God's
Word.
Do not study the Bible through your theological system, but let your system be
taken from, and faithfully weighed with, the Bible. Our theological system must
not be allowed to give its complexion to, or to be the interpreter of, revealed
truth. But, on the contrary, God's Word is to suggest and mold and tint all our
thoughts and opinions and systems.

We must not set the sun by our watch; but our watch by the sun. In other words,
we must not attempt to make God's Word dovetail with our creed, but must test
every doctrine we hold, every opinion we receive, every principle we maintain,
the hope we cherish, by the unerring standard of revealed truth. This will give
a Divine and proper complexion to our views.

If we receive the light of the sun through a tinted lens, the light will
necessarily reflect the hue of the medium through which it passes. So, if we
receive the light of God's Word through any theological system whatever, it
will necessarily reflect the error and imperfection, if such there be, of that
system. And thus we shall fail to receive the teaching of God as it flows pure
and simple from His Word, as light flows from the sun, and as streams from the
fountain.

The Bible is our rule of faith and our only and ultimate appeal. By the law and
the testimony let every doctrine, and system, and hope for eternity be tried.

Do not be, then, carried away by the learning, the influence, or even the piety
attaching to a popular name. Allow no human leader the mastery of your mind and
conscience.

Yield yourself meekly and obediently to the authority and teaching of Christ,
accepting human guidance only so far as it comes with a "thus says the Lord" as
its divine endorsement.

Our only safeguard in a matter of such infinite moment as our future
well-being, is God's pure Word; our only secure place, the feet of the Savior.
Sitting there as His lowly disciple, the Holy Spirit will lead our minds into
the truth, even "the truth as it is in Jesus," as it emanates from Jesus, as it
speaks of Jesus, as it strengthens our faith in, and inspires our love to,
Jesus, and as it prepares us to go and be with Jesus forever.

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