[Manna - June 6]
Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life. Luke 21:34
WHAT a work we realize to be before us, and what
necessity for sobriety, vigilance, steadfastness!
It is a
life work, a life battle against a mighty foe entrenched
in our flesh.
The powers without are strong indeed,
but the civil war within is by far the most to be
dreaded.
If we become in any measure intoxicated
with the spirit of the world;—if we give way to self-gratification,
love of ease, pleasure, a little indulgence
of any of the old dispositions of envy, malice, pride,
vain-glory, vaunting of self, headiness, highmindedness,
wrath, strife, or any such thing—even a little,
Oh, how great is the peril to which we are exposed! Z.'95-201 R1859:6