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TENDER
TIMES FOR TIMELY TRUTHS
Dwelling
in the
and Walking
with Christ
Rev. Dr.
Robert E. Donaldson
May
2000
Published
by World Wide Web Witness Inc.
©
ISBN 0
0 9578146
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PREFACE
There is a time,
says Solomon, to grieve and rejoice, for all things. There is a time for
timely truth, and that is now. It is a time for tenderness, for so much is
vast blast since the atomic bomb.
There is a time
to reflect, to consider, to forsake the credentials of perfection and actually
think.
There is a time
for romance, and for reality. In the Bible there is a time for both, for
the love of the Lord is back of reality, and its forsaking is what makes
the term ‘reality’ seem to many harsh!
There is a time
for truth, and that is always. If we read fiction, it is better to know the
truth.
There must be time
to be holy, and to understand the plan of salvation; to understand the Lord
for this is His will, to avoid the circumlocutions which are mere verbal
excuses for NOT knowing the Lord, and for getting to know Him better than
any living being (cf. Psalm 73:25-26), for overcoming the child’s hurdle of Samuel, and
actually KNOWING the Lord, and not merely knowing about Him, what some have
said and unsaid, and would say if they dared, and have said in fits of foolish
derring-do.
It is a time for
NOT knowing the existential moment instead of the Lord, or the emotional
‘high’ as some kind of psychological
god; or the economic ‘prosperity’ as if that were what love
was all about, and for true knowledge of the reason for the crucifixion,
and of the peace which follows salvation, most understandable in principle
and past all understanding in the delight of practice!
The time has now
come and is pressing. Take it.
In reading these
pages, it is hoped that you will be encouraged to avoid the evil and find
the good, indeed to leave the condemned tenements of living without the Lord,
or contrary to His commandments, and to increase in your understanding
of Him, for as He says: