[Songs in the Night - July 18]
Blessed are they that hear the Word of God, and keep it. Luke 11:28
IT IS important that we should hear the Word of
the Lord, that we search the Scriptures, that we have
them well at our command, that we be able to give an
answer to him that asketh us a reason for the hope
that is in us, and we need more than all this.
We
need to obey the Word, to practice it to the extent of
our ability.
True, we cannot come up to the demands
of perfection, for God's law is perfect, but we can have
the perfect attitude of heart, and nothing less than this
will be acceptable to the Lord.
We can show him and
to some extent show to others the endeavor of our
lives in the direction of righteousness and all the fruits
and graces of the Holy Spirit.
If we had all knowledge
and zeal and had not the spirit of obedience it would
evidence a lack of the spirit of love, and prove us unworthy
of the divine favor and blessings promised to
those who are rightly exercised by the message from
above. Z'05-366 R3678:4 (Hymn 267)