Keep in Touch With God
The wisest man that ever lived says: “Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.”
The basis of a moral life is the remembrance of thy Creator. With this in your memory you will be able to establish a moral character; without it you can not have a moral life.
Below the nature of every man, the foundation of his nature, the everlasting rock upon which it is built, is God. He can not be ignored in any act, in any transaction. You may attempt to blot Him out, or cover Him up out of the sight of your own intelligence, but He is there always. He is your Creator, and the more you are in touch with Him, the more responsive you are to His promptings, the higher your moral character.
The old Pagans had no morality because they hid God from their own hearts and understandings, and substituted gods of wood and stone.
They really worshipped themselves, for when a man casts out God there is nothing but himself to worship.
The fact is, when men desire to lead immoral lives, or commit violations of law of any kind, they begin by closing their eyes to God and forgetting their Creator, and they say: “There is no Hell.”
In these days it is impossible for a man to live without a knowledge of his Creator. His name is everywhere and stamped upon everything. This very knowledge makes it incumbent upon every man to keep in touch with his Creator, for it is the common sentiment of all mankind, and can not be ignored.
The observance of every moral precept is prompted by the Creator, who “wills not that men shall perish, but that they shall live.”
To turn away from Him is to lose moral character, to keep in touch with Him is to preserve it. We keep in touch with God by remembering Him.