[Songs in the Night - March 31]
For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword. Hebrews 4:12
IN EVERY case it has been the Word of God that
has caused the disturbance, the commotion.
Whether
sent through the prophets of old or through the apostles
and reformers of this age it has been God speaking
from heaven—and his Word is quick and powerful,
searching beyond any human message.
It will separate,
it will distinguish; it will find the truth-hungry, it
will separate the others; it is the light of which the
apostle declared, Whatsoever doth make manifest is
light.
The attitude assumed by the people toward the
light, the truth, demonstrates better than all their
professions would do whether they are of the light or
of the darkness.
In our imperfection of judgment we
might suppose that some were children of light who
really are not of the light, and we might presume some
to be children of darkness who are really different at
heart.
The Lord knows them that are his; he demonstrates
who is on his side and who is on the side of
darkness; let us be content and let the sickle of truth
do the separating in the harvest work, and let us not
be self-willed and self-opinionated, but waiting on the
Lord.
Let us wait patiently on him to bring about the
separation with divine wisdom and love—we know
that his plan is the best in the end. Z'06-295 R3860:6 (Hymn 81)