It is a fact that the habitual performance of the humblest duties has often developed the highest spirituality of character, with a vivid consciousness of God within and around us.
Duty is far more than love. It is the upholding law through which the weakest become strong, without which all strength is unstable as water.
Work is a stimulus to work!
and loafing is a stimulus to laziness!
Each little grace invites a larger; and his step being upward, his view is wider.
Our Master, Christ, has given you this thing to do: say not that you are ready to do something else, but not this; say not that this is just what you cannot do; say not that you are but a mere peg in a machine and have no power to move.
Jesus… doesn’t choose the powerful and capable to manifest his glory. He chooses corrupt tax collectors, penitent publicans, simple soldiers who are ‘only following orders’, women about whom your mother warned you, failed fisherfolk, and even us to be the workers of miracles that will transform a worn-out world into a feast overflowing with the finest of wine.
It does not matter to where we have wandered – God seeks us out.
It does not matter how much we have failed – God smiles on us.
It does not matter how much we feel unworthy – God is well pleased with us.
A man conscious of God could not be conscious of self or fret to draw notice to his words and acts.
The essence of the whole situation was to have in one’s heart the romance of pilgrimage, to expect experience, both sweet and bitter, to desire the goal rather than the prize;
Precept & Practice – JANUARY 8 – Consecration Whole-hearted consecration was ever to be the path to exceptional service. The stipulation includes all that we have previously spoken of as required. There are no gifts that we possess, emotional, intellectual, practical, which are not comprehended by it. There is no department of life into which the demand does not enter. The… Continue reading Precept & Practice – JANUARY 8 – Consecration
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