Associate With Those Who Love God

[Thompson, Darryl]

Associate With Those Who Love God

     I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep
thy precepts. Ps. 119:63  

     Between the associations of the followers of Christ for Christian
recreation and worldly gatherings for pleasure and amusement, will exist
a marked contrast. Instead of prayer and the mentioning of Christ and
sacred things, will be heard from the lips of worldlings the silly laugh
and the trifling conversation. Their idea is to have a general high
time.  Their amusements commence in folly and end in vanity. We want in
our gatherings to have them so conducted, and to so conduct ourselves,
that when we return to our homes we can have a conscience void of
offense toward God and man; a consciousness that we have not wounded or
injured in any manner those with whom we have associated or had an
injurious influence over them.  

     We are of that class who believe that it is our privilege every day
of our lives to glorify God upon the earth; that we are not to live in
this world merely for our own amusement, merely to please ourselves. We
are here to benefit humanity and to be a blessing to society.  

     Those who truly love God will not cultivate the society of those
who do not love Jesus. They will find that Christian society and
conversation is food to the soul, that in the society of those who love
God they breathe in the atmosphere of heaven. Christians will exercise
love and sympathy one for another. The encouragement given one to
another, the esteem manifested one for another, the helps, the
instruction, the reproofs, warnings, the Christian counsel that should
be found among the followers of Christ will further them in the
spiritual life; for Christian fellowship is according to God's plan. . .
. They will have tender consideration for all of like precious faith,
and will draw toward those who love God. There will be fellowship such
as the world knows not of. 

>From My Life Today - Page 216