Good Points

[The Librarian]

A brother giving a talk said that our service to Jehovah is like taking a trip to California, as the trip progresses you will need to stop at the gas station to fill up, our meetings are the gas station, and if we fail to fill up spiritually we will shut down spiritually or worse leave the truth.

 

He also brought out a point about how we treat our bothers and sisters. He asked if one of our brother had a car and that car broke down, and he had no way of getting around, and we had two cars, but we were only using one would we be willing to let our brother use the other car? Now lets say that we had a Lexus and a Chevrolet, which would we be willing to lend then? The point was that Jehovah sent Jesus his only begotten son to die for us, and we should be imitating Jehovah's love, so in imitation of Jehovah's love we would want to give our brother the best.

 

He then made the point about spiritual progress: He said when we got baptized we agreed to give our all to Jehovah, so we no longer lived for ourselves but for Jehovah. Now lets say, we were the one in need of that car that was mentioned before, and our loving brother gave it to us to use, but every time you went to use the car it was gone, what would you think to yourself. Your brother failed to tell you that he had a set of keys as well, and he keeps taking the car. It would seem that he didn't really want you to use the car in the first place, it is the same with Jehovah if we are always busy pursuing our own interests whenever Jehovah would like to use us, then in effect we are telling him that we didn't really want to be used by him.

 

This is where Godly Devotion comes in to play and we will always be at our meetings fueling ourselves spiritually, cultivating spiritual qualities and giving of ourselves for Jehovah's interests not our own.