[Songs in the Night - April 11]
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,...he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season. Psalm 1:1, 3
WHILE the heights of perfection cannot be reached
so long as we still have these imperfect bodies, there
should be in every child of God very perceptible and
continuous growth in grace, and each step gained
should be considered but the steppingstone to higher
attainments.
If there is no perceptible growth into the
likeness of God, or if there is a backward tendency,
or a listless standstill, there is cause for alarm.
Let us
constantly keep before our eyes the model which the
Lord Jesus set for our example—that model of the complete
fulfilment of the will of God, in which the
whole Law was kept blamelessly.
Let us follow his
steps of righteousness and self-sacrifice as nearly as
a full measure of loving zeal and faithfulness and
loyalty to God will enable us to do, and we shall have
a blessed sense of the divine approval now, and the
glorious reward of divine favor in due time. Z'11-180 R4835:5 (Hymn 78)