[Songs in the Night - January 23]
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. Acts 2:42
ALL of God's people can dwell together in love, in
fellowship, under the divine care as a "royal priesthood,"
"seated together in heavenly places"—in the
antitypical tabernacle's "Holy."
So far as our earthly
abode is concerned we may today live comparatively
closely, by virtue of the convenient railway and mail
services.
It behooves us all, therefore, to "speak often
one to another" that, as the prophet declares, the
Lord may hear and note and prosper our blessing of
one another.
(Malachi 3:16) And we suggest that it is
a partial fulfilment of the injunction that we "make
straight paths for our feet, lest that which is lame be
turned out of the way," if we seek such dwelling places
as will conduce to our occasional interchanges with
the household of faith.
Let us put God first, and
Christian fellowship and growth in grace second, and
both before wealth, in all of our reckonings.
Thus
we will best seek first the kingdom of God and its
righteousness, and find all other things added in proportion
to our real needs as new creatures. Z'07-345 R4090:5 (Hymn 97)