Character and Conduct – 2 March – Wasted Emotions
We are guilty to man, and guilty before God, when we lose our powers in inglorious ease.
We are guilty to man, and guilty before God, when we lose our powers in inglorious ease.
…lay aside, not all comfort – men have a right to that – but that excess of it which softens and enfeebles the soul
We can’t spend our whole lives reading ‘sustaining books’ whilst others work their fingers to the bone around us. In the Christian Life we cannot be Martha or Mary (Luke 10.38-42)[3] we must needs be both!
We may claim God’s good will in our hearts as ours, if we will lay aside the doing of our own wrong will.
…one of the best ways to look at God is to look at Him through man, and the work He does among the children of men, for there we see Him most variously and most infinitely.
My child, go, forward, abiding in faith, hope, and love, for lo, I am with you alway.
So, Lord, who erst didst stir with quickening power
My answering soul, achieve what Thou hast aimed;
Draw, for Thou hast drawn; hold, what Thou hast claimed;
Aye, better to climb and fall,
Or sow though the yield be small;
Than to throw away day after day,
And never strive at all.
The Past cannot be changed. The Future is yet in our power.
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.