7. He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar.
Responses came to Moses and Aaron out of that glorious overshadowing cloud, and
though Samuel saw it not, yet to him also came the mystic voice. People have
had converse with God; let us therefore speak to God in return. He has told us
things to come; let us in return confess the sins which are past. He has
revealed his mind to us; let us then pour out our hearts before him. They kept his testimonies. When others turned aside they were faithful; in their
hearts they laid up his word, and in their lives they obeyed it. When he spoke
to them they observed his will, and therefore when they spoke to him he yielded
to their desires. This keeping of the divine testimonies is a virtue all too
rare in these our days; people run after their own views and opinions, and make
light of the truth of God; hence it is that they fail in prayer. May the good
Lord bring back his people to reverence his word, and then will he also have
respect unto the voice of their cry. And the ordinance that he gave them.
His practical precept they observed as well as his doctrinal instruction. A
light estimate of inspired dogma is sure to end in neglect of moral virtues.
Lord, if thou wilt make us mighty with thee in prayer, we shall also be kept
faithful before thee in the service which thou hast laid upon us.
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