THE TWO CROSSINGS Part 1 continued

The wisdom of the fathers

HASTE AND PREPARATION Part 1 continued

In Ex. 12. 33, we find that the exit from Egypt was in great haste. "The Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste," etc. How true to experience! When a sinner fully realizes his state of guilt and danger, he moves with utmost speed to calling on a Savior.

When they were to cross Jordan, there was more definite proceeding and preparation. Joshua i. II: "Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals, for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God giveth you. " Here there is thoughtful and definite preparation for a mighty step of faith, and not that hurry and terrific alarm that accompanied their exit from slavery. And so when a child of God is on the verge of making the great step into entire sanctification, there is a definiteness in his preparatory consecration, a deep, determined and thoughtful proceeding, which it was impossible to exercise when fleeing as a slave of sin from the wrath to come. to be continued

(from "White Robes" by G.D. Watson)