[Songs in the Night - October 13]
Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live. Amos 5:14
THE greatest privilege of the present time is to get
into the elect company of God's saints.
In order to
enter this company faith and obedience are necessary
requisites.
That faith must recognize Jesus as the
Lamb of God, the Sin-bearer.
It must recognize him
also as the Pattern and Examplar.
The reward will be
to those who have his Spirit, his disposition, and who
will walk through the present life in his footsteps. Such will eventually gain with him glory, honor, immortality—the kingdom.
In the present time they will
to the world seem to have the unfavorable side, a battle
against the world, the flesh, and the Adversary.
The
world cannot understand what pleasure and blessing
these really enjoy because of the surrender of their
wills to God's will, and because of the Spirit of the
Lord, which they consequently receive.
But these
alone have the peace and joy and blessing which the
world can neither give nor take away.
What other
men are seeking and failing to find, God's saints enjoy. Z'13-156 R5243:5 (Hymn 123)