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Preparing for Heaven’s School, July 23
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our
daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a
palace.
Psalm 144:12
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Let not parents forget the great mission field that lies before them in
the home. In the children committed to her, every mother has a sacred
charge from God. “Take this son, this daughter,” God says, “and train it
for Me. Give it a character polished after the similitude of a palace, that it
may shine in the courts of the Lord forever.”
Let the determination of each member of the family be, I will be a
Christian, for in the school here below I must form a character that will
give me entrance into the higher grade, even the school above. I must do
unto others as I desire them to do to me.
Make the home life as nearly as possible like heaven. Let the members
of the family forget not, as they gather round the family altar, to pray
for the men in positions of responsibility in God’s work. The physicians
in our sanitariums, the ministers of the gospel, those in charge of our
publishing houses and schools, need your prayers. They are tempted and
tried. As you plead with God to bless them, your own hearts will be
subdued and softened by His grace. We are living amid the perils of the
last days, and we are to cleanse ourselves from all defilement and put on
the robe of Christ’s righteousness.
My brother, my sister, I urge you to prepare for the coming of Christ
in the clouds of heaven. Day by day cast the love of the world out of
your hearts. Understand by experience what it means to have fellowship
with Christ. Prepare for the judgment, that when Christ shall come, to be
admired in all them that believe, you may be among those who will meet
Him in peace. In that day the redeemed will shine forth in the glory of the
Father and the Son. The angels, touching their golden harps, will welcome
the King and His trophies of victory—those who have been washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb. A song of triumph will peal forth,
filling all heaven. Christ has conquered. He enters the heavenly courts,
accompanied by His redeemed ones, the witnesses that His mission of
suffering and sacrifice has not been in vain.
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