[Songs in the Night - February 22]
By patient continuance in welldoing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life. Romans 2:7
WHAT are we seeking?
This is a good question for
each one of us to put to himself, and for us to suggest
at a proper time to all others who are manifesting
any interest in present truth.
We know what the world
is seeking—wealth, honor, fame, ease, etc.—and we
know that many who turn toward the Lord still have
the spirit of the world.
They would like to be the
Lord's disciples and still have and cultivate and enjoy
the hopes and ambitions that are more or less worldly.
It is appropriate that we should give heed to the Master's
words as though they were addressed to each of
us individually, What are you seeking?
Let us answer
our Master in our own hearts and in prayer; and before
we make answer let us consider well that it may
be a truthful one, for we might indeed deceive ourselves,
but could not deceive him with whom we have
to do.
It is right that we should seek the kingdom and
that we should know that there is a great honor and
glory and dignity associated with it by divine arrangement,
and that thus we should "seek for glory, honor,
and immortality."
But in conjunction with this seeking
of the kingdom we should remember our Master's
words on another occasion, that we should seek chiefly
the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Z'08-13 R4116:2 (Hymn 78)