[April 25]
I thank God, whom I serve...that without ceasing
I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and
day. II Timothy 1:3
THOSE whose hearts are loving to their enemies,
and loving to the household of faith, and above all,
loving to the Lord, these would indeed be exceedingly
sensitive if their hearts got into any attitude in which
they would not be seeking the welfare of others, and
praying for them. In such hearts there would be no
room for anger, bitterness, strife, envying. In such
hearts the love of God is shed abroad as represented by
the holy anointing oil, the unction from the Holy One,
which lubricates all of the sensibilities, smoothing not
only the countenance, but also the tongue and the
heart; for "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh," and bitter water cannot come from a pure
fountain. Z'08-203 R4201:2(Hymn 239)