Let us remember that we are living in a day of ruin the last days of the history of the church of God on earth. It is the day of the “great house” of 2 Timothy. In such a time let us see that we, as it were, eat the sin offering. Let us beware of setting ourselves up as those who have not failed. I tremble when I see a tendency to exalt ourselves by saying that we have kept the truth. If we say this, we have not learned our lesson well.
We are part of the ruin, and we need to be in the spirit of Daniel who prayed, “O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love Him, and to them that keep His commandments; we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Thy precepts and from Thy judgments” (Dan. 9:45).
I am persuaded that if we set ourselves up to be something, God will show us that we are nothing. Let us beware of claiming to be superior to someone else. May we walk in the path of faith conscious of the fact that we are part of the failure that has come in among the Christian testimony. There is a way of maintaining the truth of the remnant testimony in these last days, but we need bowed heads, realizing that we are a part of Christendom’s failure.
P. Wilson