To Be Like Jesus

Family Worship Can Help Create Harmony, November 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, NKJV. BLJ 336.1

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.... BLJ 336.2

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. BLJ 336.3

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.” ... BLJ 336.4

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. BLJ 336.5

“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. BLJ 336.6