[Manna - October 28]
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me; because the LORD hath anointed Me,...to comfort all that mourn, ...to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning. Isaiah 61:1,2
OUR commission is to seek out the meek and the
mourning ones, who have appreciated their own shortcomings
and weaknesses, and who are looking for refuge
and deliverance.
It is part of our commission to
point them to the Lamb of God, who taketh away the
sin of the world, to point them to the beauty of the
resurrection for the ashes of death, and the glories
which the Lord has promised by and by to take the
place of the spirit of heaviness and disappointment
and sorrow and trouble of this present time.
It is our
commission to tell such that "Joy cometh in the morning,"
and to assist them to arise and at once put
on the garments of praise, and to begin to walk in newness of life, with a "new song in their mouths—even the lovingkindness of our God." Z. '04-295 R3436:1