Let Your Aim Be To Please The Lord
February 16.
Serve Him with a perfect heart,
and with a willing mind.
1 CHRONICLES 28, verse 9.
And if some things I do not ask,
In my cup of blessing be,
I would have my spirit filled the more
With grateful love to Thee,
More careful,
not to serve Thee much,
But to please Thee perfectly.
A. L. WARING.
Little things come daily, hourly, within our reach,
and they are not less calculated to set forward
our growth in holiness, than are the greater
occasions which occur but rarely. Moreover,
fidelity in trifles, and an earnest seeking to
please God in little matters, is a test of real
devotion and love. Let your aim be to please
our dear Lord perfectly in little things, and to
attain a spirit of childlike simplicity and
dependence. In proportion as self-love and
self-confidence are weakened, and our will
bowed to that of God, so will hindrances
disappear, the internal troubles and contests
which harassed the soul vanish, and it will be
filled with peace and tranquillity.
JEAN NICOLAS GROU.
Serve Him with a perfect heart,
and with a willing mind.
1 CHRONICLES 28, verse 9.
And if some things I do not ask,
In my cup of blessing be,
I would have my spirit filled the more
With grateful love to Thee,
More careful,
not to serve Thee much,
But to please Thee perfectly.
A. L. WARING.
Little things come daily, hourly, within our reach,
and they are not less calculated to set forward
our growth in holiness, than are the greater
occasions which occur but rarely. Moreover,
fidelity in trifles, and an earnest seeking to
please God in little matters, is a test of real
devotion and love. Let your aim be to please
our dear Lord perfectly in little things, and to
attain a spirit of childlike simplicity and
dependence. In proportion as self-love and
self-confidence are weakened, and our will
bowed to that of God, so will hindrances
disappear, the internal troubles and contests
which harassed the soul vanish, and it will be
filled with peace and tranquillity.
JEAN NICOLAS GROU.
