[Songs in the Night - June 20]
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Submit yourselves therefore to God. James 4:6, 7
WHILE we longingly look forward to our glorious
station of the future, when the glory of the Lord shall
fill the Temple, when "we shall know as we are
known," let us not forget that unless we are submissive
to the molding and fashioning influences of the
school of Christ we shall be set aside.
Our names will
be blotted out of that special role and our crowns apportioned
to others.
It is in full view of the possibilities
of so great a loss of so great a prize that the
apostle wrote, "Let us fear lest a promise being left
us of entering into his rest, any of us should seem to
come short."
The cultivation of pride along any line,
the development of an unsanctified ambition, are
amongst the greatest dangers to these living stones
now in preparation.
Such flaws developed would render
us unfit for this special service.
And if they should
develop in us headiness or high-mindedness, they would
probably also develop envy, malice, hatred, strife, evil
speaking, evil surmisings, all of which are contrary to
the Spirit of Christ and would soon render such "none
of his." Z'08-376 R4297:5 (Hymn 198)