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Deposits In The Bank Of Heaven, March 20
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the
fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted
from the world.
James 1:27
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The tender sympathies of our Saviour were aroused for fallen and suffering
humanity. If you would be His followers, you must cultivate compassion and
sympathy.... The widow, the orphan, the sick, and the dying will always need help.
Here is an opportunity to proclaim the gospel—to hold up Jesus, the hope and
consolation of all men. When the suffering body has been relieved, ... the heart is
opened, and you can pour in the heavenly balm.
A company of believers may be poor, uneducated, and unknown; yet in Christ
they may do a work in the home, the neighborhood, the church, and even in “the
regions beyond,” whose results will be as far-reaching as eternity. It is because
this work is neglected that so many young disciples never advance beyond the
mere alphabet of Christian experience. The light which was glowing in their own
hearts when Jesus spoke to them, “Thy sins be forgiven thee,” they might have
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kept alive by helping those in need. The restless energy that is so often a source of
danger to the young might be directed into channels through which it would flow
out in streams of blessing.
The hours so often spent in amusement that refreshes neither body nor soul
should be spent in ... seeking to help someone who is in need.
Every opportunity to help a brother in need, or to aid the cause of God in the
spread of the truth, is a pearl that you can send beforehand, and deposit in the
bank of heaven for safe-keeping.
Love, courtesy, self-sacrifice—these are never lost. When God’s chosen ones
are changed from mortality to immortality, their words and deeds of goodness will
be made manifest, and will be preserved through the eternal ages.... Through the
merits of Christ’s imputed righteousness, the fragrance of such words and deeds
is forever preserved.
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