02 THE REVIEW

THE REVIEW "Since my youth, O God, You have taught me; and to this day I declare Your marvelous deeds." Psalms 71:17 In early life, God began to instruct us. He taught us the rigid requirements of his holy law, our need of a better righteousness than our own, the importance of a saving interest in Christ, and the necessity of personal holiness. Under his teaching we . . .
left the world,
came to Jesus,
embraced the atonement,
found peace, and
commenced walking with God.

Many years have passed since that period, many times have we manifested the depravity of our hearts, through many trials and troubles we have been brought—but amidst all, our God has taught us!

Yes, he has taught us . . .
our own weakness,
the vanity of the world,
the insufficiency of earthly things, and
the necessity of something superior to what we find here, to satisfy the cravings of our immortal minds. Daily has he taught us our need of Christ, and how to make use of him. He has taught us . . .
by his Word,
by his servants,
by his providence,
and by his Spirit. And it is in consequence of his teaching that we now . . .
cleave to Jesus,
prefer holiness to sin,
Heaven to earth, and
the presence of God to everything beside.

Blessed, forever blessed be God, for teaching us. For if he had not taught us—we would have still been . . .
ignorant of ourselves,
strangers to Jesus, and
alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in us, because of the natural blindness of our minds. My soul, look back at the many Ebenezers you have set up . . .
when helped in difficulty,
when supplied in necessity, and
when delivered out of trouble.

Especially notice this, how your God has taught you . . .
your need of his grace,
the preciousness of Christ, and
the value and veracity of his precious promises.

O blessed God and Savior, I praise, I bless you, that you have taught me from my youth!

"Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every Word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you." Deuteronomy 8:2-5