[Songs in the Night - October 6]
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another. Romans 12:10
THE truth seems to take hold on the stronger characters
rather than on the weaker ones.
The former
have in their flesh more of the firmness, grittiness, and
combativeness than have many others, who are too
pliable and "wishy-washy" to be acceptable to the
Lord as members of the "little flock" of overcomers.
Thus we see that the very quality which makes us
acceptable to the Lord and which is one qualification
of the overcoming position, is a serious disadvantage in
some respects, when a number of these come together
as a church.
Even a diamond surrounded by mud
would cut nothing, would scratch nothing; but place
a dozen diamonds together, and the more you get
rid of the mud element the more gritting, scouring, and
cutting there is likely to be.
So it is with the Lord's
jewels—the more they come together, the more they
get wakened up, the more opportunities there will be
for friction, and the greater necessity there will be
that all be thoroughly imbedded in and covered with
the Holy Spirit, which, like oil, is smooth and unctuous
and tends to prevent friction. Z'12-99 R4995:5 (Hymn 23)