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Daily Text
If he suffers as a Christian, let him not feel shame, but let him keep on glorifying God in this name. -l Pet. 4: 16, NW.
Some think the name Christian was originally given as a name of reproach to Christ's followers. (Acts 11: 26) Yet we can accept that name, just the same as we can accept the name 'Judean' or 'Jew' in a spiritual sense. Why? Because we adhere to Jehovah's promise to Judah, that 'the scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be'. (Gen. 49: 10, AS) We can accept, too, to suffer as a Christian, according to what Peter says above. So, you can either take the name 'Christian' in vain and bring reproach upon it as Christendom does, or you can suffer unjustly as a Christian. If you live up to the name 'Christian' despite the suffering it brings, you can glorify God in this name. In the same way a distinction needs to be made between religion and true faith. W 11/1
Monthly Theme
TRANSMITTING THE TRUE RECORD
JEHOVAH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book." That was in 1513 B .C. It is the first divine command to write, and it indicates Jehovah's purpose to have important matters recorded. Memorial of them was not to be entrusted to oral transmission subject to corruption by fallible human memory. The ...
