[Songs in the Night - February 9]
Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God. Deuteronomy 8:18
THE more we come into possession of the spiritual
blessings which the Lord has promised us, and which
we have accepted by faith, the more need we will have
of humility; and our humility will be proportionate to
our appreciation of divine goodness and our thankfulness
therefore.
The grateful, thankful heart may go
on from grace to grace, from strength to strength; from
knowledge to knowledge, from attainment to attainment;
but if gratitude begins to wane and our advantages
are accepted either as matters of our own
attainment or of good luck, in that same proportion
we will find ourselves growing cold spiritually, and
with unthankfulness will come unholiness, spiritual
self-conceit and pride, and all of this will lead to
spiritual dirth, and if persisted in, to spiritual death. Z'02-286 R3080:2 (Hymn 179)