[Songs in the Night - October 18]
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in truth. John 4:24
WE DO well to keep continually in mind the
thought that God, with whom we have to do, is a
Spirit being of unlimited power; that he can read the
very thoughts and intents of our hearts and that any
worship or service that we could render, that he could
accept, must be honest-hearted—rendered in Spirit and
in truth.
He seeketh only such to worship him, and
of this class there are but a few at the present time.
After the Covenant of Grace shall have gathered out
all the household of faith, the royal priesthood, and
the great company of antitypical Levites, then, as a
means of extending God's favor, the New Covenant
will witness the thousands of the world coerced to
righteousness—that all may be enabled to see, to experience
the love of God and the blessings of righteousness,
to the intent that all who will may come into
heart harmony with him and proportionately experience
restitution, the rewriting of the divine law in the
very character, the very being.
Yet in the end, even
with the world, only such as worship God in Spirit
and in truth will be finally approved and be granted
life eternal beyond the millennial age. Z'09-173 R4410:6 (Hymn 65)