Associate
With Those Who Love God
I
am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
Ps. 119:63
Between the associations of the followers
of Christ for Christian recreation and worldly gatherings for pleasure and
amusement, will exist a marked contrast. Instead of prayer and the mentioning
of Christ and sacred things, will be heard from the lips of worldlings the
silly laugh and the trifling conversation. Their idea is to have a general high
time. Their amusements commence in
folly and end in vanity. We want in our gatherings to have them so conducted,
and to so conduct ourselves, that when we return to our homes we can have a
conscience void of offense toward God and man; a consciousness that we have not
wounded or injured in any manner those with whom we have associated or had an
injurious influence over them.
We are of that class who believe that it
is our privilege every day of our lives to glorify God upon the earth; that we
are not to live in this world merely for our own amusement, merely to please
ourselves. We are here to benefit humanity and to be a blessing to society.
Those who truly love God will not
cultivate the society of those who do not love Jesus. They will find that
Christian society and conversation is food to the soul, that in the society of
those who love God they breathe in the atmosphere of heaven. Christians will
exercise love and sympathy one for another. The encouragement given one to
another, the esteem manifested one for another, the helps, the instruction, the
reproofs, warnings, the Christian counsel that should be found among the
followers of Christ will further them in the spiritual life; for Christian
fellowship is according to God's plan. . . . They will have tender
consideration for all of like precious faith, and will draw toward those who
love God. There will be fellowship such as the world knows not of.
From My Life Today - Page 221
