[Songs in the Night - October 7]
Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. Philippians 2:14, 15
IN FOLLOWING in the footsteps of our Lord Jesus,
running the race for the great prize set before us in the
Gospel, we are not to murmur by the way, finding
fault with its difficulties and narrowness; nor are we
to dispute respecting it, nor seek to have any other
way than that which divine providence marks out for
us, realizing that the Lord knows exactly what experiences
are necessary to our development in the school
of Christ; and realizing also that, if obedience were
possible, while our mouths are full of complaints and
dissatisfaction with the Lord and our lot which he has
permitted, it would indicate that we are at least out
of sympathy with the spirit of his arrangement; and
such an obedience, if it were possible (but it could not
be possible), would not meet the divine approval, nor
gain us the prize. Z'11-441 R4929:5 (Hymn 197)