[Songs in the Night - March 16]
Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Colossians 3:3
SOME Christian writer has well said: "Wherever
there has been a faithful following of the Lord in a
consecrated heart, several things have sooner or later
inevitably followed.
Meekness and quietness of spirit
become in time the characteristics of the daily life.
A submissive acceptance of the will of God, as it comes
in the hourly events of each day, is manifested; pliability
in the hands of God to do or to suffer all the good
pleasure of his will; sweetness under provocation;
calmness in the midst of turmoil and bustle; a yielding
to the wishes of others (where there is no conflicting
principle involved), and an insensibility to slights and
affronts; absence of worry or anxiety; deliverance from
care and fear—all of these, and many other similar
graces, are invariably found to be the natural outward
development of that inward life which is 'hid with
Christ in God.'" Z'16-183 R5913:1 (Hymn 294)