[March 15]
Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which
leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew 7:14
IS NOT this a very narrow way? Yes, it is so narrow
that it is wide enough to admit only the Lord's
plan and those who are willing to discard all other
plans, projects, and questionings, and to devote themselves
fully to its service; and who are quite willing
to bear any reproach it may bring. Are you endeavoring
from day to day to vindicate the divine character
and to make known God's righteous ways? Are you
diligently studying to make yourself thoroughly
familiar with the truth, so that you may indeed be a
living epistle, known and read of all men within the
circle of your influence? Are you indeed a workman
that need not be ashamed? Are you of those who have
really given themselves to the Lord, saying truthfully
to him:
"Take myself—I wish to be
Ever, only, all for Thee"?
If so, you are just narrow-minded enough to say,
"This one thing I do; and I make everything else bend
to this one thing of showing forth God's praises and
of helping others into his marvelous light; and to this
end I cultivate and use what talents I possess as a wise
steward of my Heavenly Father." Z'12-194
R5045:3
(Hymn 277)