TRUE TO GOD
The full assurance of faith: So then, my brothers, being
able to go into the holy place without fear, because of the blood of Jesus, By
the new and living way which he made open for us through the veil, that is to
say, his flesh; And having a great priest over the house of God, Let us go in
with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense
of sin and our bodies washed with clean water: Let us keep the witness of our
hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word: And let us be
moving one another at all times to love and good works; Not giving up our
meetings, as is the way of some, but keeping one another strong in faith; and
all the more because you see the day coming near. [Bible in Basic English translation,
Letter to the Hebrews, 10:19-25]
I think it was Shakespeare
that said “To thine own self be true, and it follows, as the night the day,
Thou cans’t not then be false to any man.”
I used that
quotation in my high school graduation address, but now I would substitute “God”
in place of “thine own self”.
It would then
read “To God be true and it follows as the night the day, Thou cans’t not then
be false to any man.”
Leslie Nivens
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