[Manna - May 2]
All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 2 Timothy 3:12
OPPOSITION is to be expected, and will, doubtless,
continue until we finish our course in death.
To submit
patiently to this opposition is to sacrifice our own natural preferences for the friendship and the pleasures
of the present life, and to endure hardness as good
soldiers for the Truth's sake, in whatever shape that
hardness may come, in our effort to do the Lord's will
and work of advancing the interests of His Kingdom.
To be really in the Lord's service involves, first, the
careful and continual study of God's plan; second, the
imbibing of its spirit; leading, thirdly, to an enthusiastic
zeal for its accomplishment, and to activity to the
extent of ability in its service, at whatever cost or sacrifice
it may require. Z.'03-164,165 R3199:2