[Songs in the Night - November 13]
Prepare to meet thy God. Amos 4:12
THE right way to prepare to meet God and to hear
his decision respecting the character is not as usually
supposed, to begin to get pious when we feel the approach
of sickness or death or in the presence of
calamity.
From the moment we become believers in
Christ and turn from sin and seek forgiveness and thus
become eligible to God's favor, we are urged to present
our bodies living sacrifices to him and thus to receive
of him an adoption of his Spirit to fellowship.
This in
turn proves to be but the entrance way to the school
of Christ, where they are to be taught as sons of God,
to be prepared for the glorious work in association with
their Redeemer in his glorious kingdom.
As they grow
in grace and knowledge, they grow in appreciation of
divine favor.
Such as are in this attitude of heart
are prepared to meet their God at any time.
Indeed,
their meeting with him has already begun, and anything
that will serve in any degree to hinder its pleasurable
continuance will be a disaster indeed. Z'08-266 R4234:5 (Hymn 162)