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Represent Christ in Every Circumstance, June 27
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of
yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober
judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Romans 12:3
, NRSV.
Live for something besides self. If your motives are pure and unselfish, if you
are looking out to do work that somebody must do, to show kind attentions and
to do courteous acts, you are unconsciously building your own monument. In the
home life, in the church, and in the world you are representing Christ in character.
This is the work the Lord calls upon all ... to do....
Let your aspirations and your motives be pure. In every business transaction be
rigidly honest. However tempted, never deceive or prevaricate in the least matter.
At times a natural impulse may bring temptation to diverge from the straightforward
path of honesty, but do not vary one hair’s breadth. If in any matter you make a
statement as to what you will do, and afterward find that you have favored others to
your own loss, do not vary from principle. Carry out your agreement.
By seeking to change your plans you would show that you could not be depended
on. And should you draw back in little transactions, you would draw back in larger
ones. Under such circumstances some are tempted to deceive, saying, I was not
understood. My words have been taken to mean more than I intended. The fact is,
they meant just what they said, but lost the good impulse, and then wanted to draw
back from their agreement, lest it prove a loss to them. The Lord requires us to do
justice, to love mercy, and truth, and righteousness....
Men and women are destitute of the stern virtues required to build up the church.
They are not capable of devising methods and plans of a healthful, solid character.
They are deficient in the very qualifications essential to the prosperity of the church.
It is this kind of education that needs to be changed to an education that is sound
and sensible, in harmony with Bible principles.—
Manuscript Releases 20:343, 344
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