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Family Worship Can Help Create Harmony, Nobember 15
Who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He
appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.
Malachi 3:2
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NKJV.
We are rapidly nearing the close of this earth’s history. The end is very near,
much nearer than many suppose, and I feel burdened to urge upon our people the
necessity of seeking the Lord earnestly. Many are asleep, and what can be said to
arouse them from their carnal slumber? The Lord would have His church purified
before His judgments shall fall more signally upon the world....
Christ will remove every pretentious cloak. No mingling of the true with the
spurious can deceive Him. “He is like a refiner’s fire,” separating the precious from
the vile, the dross from the gold.
Like the Levites, God’s chosen people are set apart by Him for His special work.
Every true Christian bears priestly credentials. All are honored with the sacred
responsibility of representing to the world the character of their heavenly Father.
They are to heed well the words “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which
is in heaven is perfect.” ...
I am instructed to urge upon our people most earnestly the necessity of religion
in the home. Among the members of the household there is ever to be a kind,
thoughtful consideration. Morning and evening let all hearts be united in reverent
worship. At the season of evening worship, let every member of the family search
well his own heart. Let every wrong that has been committed be made right. If,
during the day, one has wronged another, or spoken unkindly, let the transgressor
seek pardon of the one injured. Often grievances are cherished in the mind, and
misunderstandings and heartaches are created that need not be. If the one who
is suspected of wrong be given an opportunity, he or she might be able to make
explanations that would bring relief to other members of the family.
“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another,” that ye may be
healed of all spiritual infirmities, that sinful dispositions may be changed. Make
diligent work for eternity. Pray most earnestly to the Lord, and hold fast to the faith.
Trust not in the arm of flesh, but trust implicitly in the Lord’s guidance. Let each
one now say, “As for me, I will come out, and be separate from the world. I will
serve the Lord with full purpose of heart.”—
The Review and Herald, November 8,
1906
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