| Daily Heavenly Manna (February 22) |
| Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have. Hebrews 13:5 |
| SELFISH prayers are too expensive. Some have gained wealth and lost the truth and its service; some have gained health, only to find that with it they gained other trials no less severe: some have had their dear ones restored to them from the very jaws of death, only to wish afterward that God had not answered their prayers – or, more correctly, to wish that they had accepted the Lord's wisdom and providences trustfully, contentedly, uncomplainingly....Spiritual Israel should use wisely such things as are within their reach – accepting all as God's gifts with thanksgiving; but their petitions should be for spiritual gifts – including patient endurance and heart contentment. `Z.'02-250` R3061:3 |
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| Weekly Manna (February 20) |
| If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue,...this man's religion is vain. James 1:26 |
| BECAUSE the tongue is the index of the heart, because "out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh," therefore the unbridled tongue, speaking selfishly, enviously, bitterly, boastfully, slanderously, proves that the heart from whose fullness these overflow is unsanctified, unholy, grievously lacking of the spirit of Christ – hence, whatever religion it may have attained is thus far vain, as that heart is not saved, nor in a salvable condition....The Good Physician has pointed out antidotes for soul-poisoning – medicines which, if properly taken according to directions, will sweeten the bitter heart. `Z.'99-215` R2517:2 |
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