Keeping Insulated by Sunday School Times

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 26, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 29.

Keeping Insulated

By Sunday School Times

THERE are a thousand death-dealing currents of electricity playing around us as we live our lives out day by day. We must live among the forces of evil; we must be close to them, and rub up against them, and feel them touch us as they pass to and fro on their restless course. But we do not need to let them enter into our systems, or affect our nerve centers, or stimulate our wrong desires, or burn death into our hearts. We can not dodge them, but we can be insulated from them. The insulation of God's presence in our lives, and His encircling care, is the only safeguard that will effectually keep these currents out of our lives. That insulation will not be forced on us; but we may have it, and keep it daily renewed, if we will seek it as eagerly as we would seek protection from physical death. The man who rises from his knees every morning after a season of loving reconsecration of himself and all his purposes to God and God's service, and who renews his prayer silently many times in the thick of the day's turmoil, has wrapped himself about with a force through which no evil can flow. The insulation of God's presence fails only when we cast it from us.—Sunday School Times.