[Manna - August 10]
If there be any consolation [comfort] in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Philippians 2:1,2
WHAT exhortations these are to unity, peace, brotherly
kindness!
How they suggest to us patience, forbearance,
gentleness, helpfulness and comfort one
toward another in the church; that thus the Spirit
of the Lord may abound in all, that each may make
the greatest possible progress in the right way.
Dear
brethren and sisters, let us more and more be worthy
of the name of Barnabas—Comforter of the brethren.
Let us have the Holy Spirit abounding in us more and
more, for this is the Lord's good pleasure; that with
it dwelling in us richly we may be all sons and
daughters of comfort in Zion, representatives of our
Father, and channels of the Holy Spirit, as well as of
the Truth. Z.'04-296 R3436:6