[Songs in the Night - June 18]
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. Isaiah 1:19
GOD has arranged for our learning certain lessons
of self-control, bringing ourselves into full obedience
to God in a voluntary way, with a view to our being
his representatives by and by, and of then enforcing
obedience to God's requirements on the part of the
world.
It is a generally accepted principle that no one
is qualified to rule others who has not himself learned
obedience.
At the cost of great suffering our Lord
Jesus learned what obedience means.
He promptly and
fully submitted himself to God.
This spirit of Christ
is to be manifested and developed in us, that we shall
thus be ready for the future work of The Christ, the
work of the millennial age. Z'16-132 R5890:2 (Hymn 4)