on March 08 2022 at 11:07 PM
I can relate to your concerns dear sister, yet the righteous among God's people recognize the reproach that we have brought upon God's holy name. We want Jehovah to act on behalf of his name, and show the whole world that not everyone that identifies himself with his name belongs to him. Therefore our heartfelt prayer is: "Even if our own errors do testify against us, O Jehovah, act for the sake of your name; for our acts of unfaithfulness have become many; it is against you that we have sinned.... moreI can relate to your concerns dear sister, yet the righteous among God's people recognize the reproach that we have brought upon God's holy name. We want Jehovah to act on behalf of his name, and show the whole world that not everyone that identifies himself with his name belongs to him. Therefore our heartfelt prayer is: "Even if our own errors do testify against us, O Jehovah, act for the sake of your name; for our acts of unfaithfulness have become many; it is against you that we have sinned." Jeremiah 14:7; Ezekiel 36:22-23.
Jehovah has a day of reckoning for his people. He says: "For the sake of my name I shall check my anger, and for my praise I shall restrain myself toward you that there may be no cutting you off. Look! I have refined you, but not in [the form of] silver. I have made choice of you in the smelting furnace of affliction. For my own sake, for my own sake I shall act, for how could one let oneself be profaned? And to no one else shall I give my own glory." Isaiah 48:9-11.
Jehovah is taking notice of the way of the righteous ones among his people; and according to his prophet Malachi, he is at this time identifying them and will separate them from among the wicked. Malachi wrote:
“You have said, ‘It is of no value to serve God. And what profit is there in that we have kept the obligation to him, and that we have walked dejectedly on account of Jehovah of armies? 15 And at present we are pronouncing presumptuous people happy. Also, the doers of wickedness have been built up. Also, they have tested God out and keep getting away.’”
16 At that time those in fear of Jehovah spoke with one another, each one with his companion, and Jehovah kept paying attention and listening. And a book of remembrance began to be written up before him for those in fear of Jehovah and for those thinking upon his name.
17 “And they will certainly become mine,” Jehovah of armies has said, “at the day when I am producing a special property. And I will show compassion upon them, just as a man shows compassion upon his son who is serving him. 18 And you people will again certainly see [the distinction] between a righteous one and a wicked one, between one serving God and one who has not served him.”―Malachi 3:14-18.