Everyone who will be a sacrificer must of necessity be meek, humble, teachable, else very shortly he will get out of the way. He must also learn to develop the grace of the Lord along the line of patience, because it certainly requires patience to deny ourselves and to submit at times to injustice where there is no proper means of avoiding it without doing injury to the Lord's cause or to some of His people. It also implies a cultivation of brotherly kindness and, in a word, the development of the whole will of God in our hearts and lives, namely, love, which must be attained in a large and overcoming measure ere we shall have completed our work of sacrificing.
An honest and good heart is the best of all possessions, for to such hearts God gives the Truth, and in such hearts the Truth remains, and through such hearts the Truth works, bringing forth an abundant fruitage, ultimately ripening into the Divine likeness, necessary for all who would share with Christ in administering the affairs of the Kingdom.
Job 23:11, 12; Psa. 119:11, 129; Luke 11:28; Acts 17:11; Matt. 13:23; John 8:31; 14:21; 15:5, 8; Jas. 1:22, 25; Heb. 3:14; Rom. 2:7; Heb. 10:36; 12:1; 4:2; 1 Pet. 2:1, 2; Psa. 1:1-3; Col. 1:6, 10.
