Basic HTML Version
Reveal Love While Doing God’s Business, June 21
Dead flies putrefy the perfumer’s ointment, and cause it to give off a foul
odor; so does a little folly to one respected for wisdom and honor.
Ecclesiastes 10:1
, NKJV.
I appeal to my brothers and sisters in faith, and urge them to cultivate tenderness
of heart. Whatever may be your calling or position, if you cherish selfishness and
covetousness, the displeasure of the Lord will be upon you. Do not make the work
and cause of God an excuse for dealing closely and selfishly with anyone, even if
transacting business that has to do with His work. God will accept nothing in the
line of gain that is brought into His treasury through selfish transactions.
Every act in connection with His work is to bear divine inspection. Every sharp
transaction, every attempt to take advantage of persons who are under pressure of
circumstances, every plan to purchase their land or property for a sum beneath its
value, will not be acceptable to God, even though the money gained is made an
offering to His cause. The price of the blood of the only-begotten Son of God has
been paid for every human being, and it is necessary to deal honestly, to deal with
equity with every person, in order to carry out the principles of the law of God....
If a brother or sister who has labored disinterestedly for the cause of God
becomes enfeebled in body and is unable to work, let him or her not be dismissed
and be obliged to get along the best way they can. Give them wages sufficient to
support themselves, for remember they belong to God’s family, and that you are all
brothers and sisters....
We are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves. This command is not
that we shall simply love those who think and believe exactly as we think and
believe. Christ illustrated the meaning of the commandment by the parable of the
good Samaritan. But how strangely these precious words are neglected, and how
frequently people oppress their fellow human beings, and lift up their souls unto
vanity.—
The Review and Herald, December 18, 1894
.
[185]
186