[Manna - April 9]
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?
So run, that ye may obtain. 1 Corinthians 9:24
TO gain the victory we must not only put on the
armor of God, but we must be heroes in the strife,
and wage an aggressive warfare upon the lusts of the
eye and flesh and pride of life and all the foes of
righteousness and purity.
Love—love for the Lord,
for the Truth and for righteousness—must inspire us,
or we shall never be victors.
Love alone will keep us
faithful even unto death, and make us meet for the
inheritance of the saints in light.
Where fervent love
rules the heart it implies that the heart is fully submitted to the Lord, and that means that nine-tenths
of the battle is already won.
But even then, as the
apostle says (Jude 21), we must keep ourselves in
the love of God, in watchfulness and prayer and zeal;
and grace will abound where love abounds. Z.'95-93 R1799:4