[Manna - December 23]
A word in season, how good it is!
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Proverbs 15:23; Proverbs 25:11
WE are to remember, when talking with those who
have an ear to hear and are inquiring the way to the
Lord, that there are great crises in the lives of men,
momentous occasions, in which one word may be more
valuable, more potent, than would be a hundred words
or a thousand words at another time, under different
circumstances; and we are to be instant in the Lord's
service, whether seasonable or unseasonable to ourselves,—gladly ready to lay down our lives for the
brethren....We are to distinguish, however, between
out-of-season to ourselves and out-of-season
to others; and to be willing to serve others at any time,
however out-of-season to ourselves, if it be in season
and opportune for them.
We are not to intrude even
the Gospel itself at inopportune times, however convenient
the occasion may be to ourselves. Z. '02-381 R3124:1