[Songs in the Night - March 14]
Prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only. I Samuel 7:3
LET us, dear brethren and sisters, who are privileged
to be heralds of the coming kingdom, be earnest,
zealous as was John the Baptist, giving comparatively
little heed to the customs and formalities of the world,
and giving very diligent heed to our appointed work,
to show forth the praises of our Heavenly Bridegroom,
to announce him to all, to make known to all the terms
and conditions of his favor and to bear witness to his
presence now in the harvest time of this age, that his
fan is in his hand, that he will thoroughly purge
the threshingfloor of all chaff, that he will gather
the wheat into the garner of his kingdom, and that the
great majority of Christendom will soon enter the
great time of trouble.
If faithful in this ministry as
the antitypical Elijah on this side the veil, we may
feel sure of our acceptance as members of the body of
the Anointed One on the other side the veil, and thus
have participation in the sufferings of the present time
and in the glories and dignities of the future. Z'06-31 R3713:4 (Hymn 255)