| Daily Heavenly Manna (February 7) |
| Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Romans 13:10 |
| HE who finds his heart not in harmony with this law of the New Covenant, love – mercy, kindness, gentleness, goodness – lacks the evidence or proof that he is in any sense of the word accepted as a son of God, and a joint-heir with Christ. If we have not love in our hearts for the brethren, and love of gentleness and benevolence toward all men, and even toward the brute creation, we have not the spirit which will carry us through in making the sacrifices necessary under present conditions. It will only be a question of time with such when the power of pride or vain-glory, holding them in the way of sacrifice, will snap asunder, and selfishness take full control. `Z.'98-201` R2330:2 |
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| Weekly Manna (February 5) |
| This is the will of God [concerning you], even your sanctification. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 |
| COMING to the Scriptures to ascertain God's will, we find that the great work which God asks of us is not work for others, but work in ourselves, subduing, conquering, ruling self. Everything else, therefore – our service for the household of faith, and our doing good unto all men, by home and foreign missions, etc. – is subservient to this most important work within. For, as the apostle by inspiration declares, though we should preach the gospel eloquently to others, and though we should give all our goods to feed the poor, or become martyrs for a good cause, without love, the Spirit of Christ and the Father, developed in us as the ruling principle of life, we would be nothing, from the divine standpoint. `Z.'99-4` R2412:1 |
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