Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-02-11
Alone with Jesus ALWAYS meats. nrst

fulnesg of the human heart and life.
Look at yourself in the mirror of the
pert ect righteousness of Christ Jesus
and you Immediately become conscious
of n. Alone with Jesus always brings
one face to face with his real self. The
publican who went up into the temple
TO pray had been aloOe with God and
had caught Il vision of his real self,
and came crying: God, be mer.iful
to me sinner" Until the soul gets
alone with Jesus, sin always looks
black and hideous on other people,
but it seems very slight and quite ex-
cusable when ii il: a personal matter
The human hear. knows how to use
the whitewash brush, and is not at all
sparng of the whtewash as il tries
tn cover over tie black, unsightly
marks of sin marring it's purity.
When | came home the other night
| noticed tear stains on the face OF
my little five-year-old. Taking her
in my arms / sought to find the cause
of them. "What has my little girl been
crying about?' Mamma sent me up
stairs" "Wny did mamma send you
upstairs?" Baby brother had my
pencil And was that what mamma
sent you upstairs for; because brother
had your pencil?" "Well, YOU know,
papa. YOU don't want him to have pen
ellis because he bites the lead of"
But what did mamma send YOU up
stairs for?" | asked again. The little
head dropped. and the little tongue
stammerod out what it had been try
ing TO cover up: ~ grabbed the pencil
had been trying to cover up and excuse
ITS fault, and the human heart is al
ways trying to do that. God declares
that the heart is deceitful above all
things and desperately wicked" and il
is as natural for j. to use the white
wash brush of excuse and human com
parison, as it is for the human heart
to err.
There is natural aversion to being
alone with Jesus. 1t makes one feel
so uncomfortable il he is clinging to
sin. 1t results in one of two things:
Either the soul runs away from Jesus
as it rejects His claim upon il. or the
cry is the same as escaped from the
lips of Peter on the shore of Lake
Galilee: depart from me; for | am
sinful man, o Lord" And when this
- "'S from ,Ee heart conscious
VI I'm because II Is III the presence
Vi ''N"S' ne never departs put draws
I'oHc "S 10 COVER up the SIN spots
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