Devotional
Sunday
Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then
an heir of God through Christ.—Galatians 4:7.
NOT by the terrors of a slave God's sons perform His will, But with
the noblest powers they have His sweet commands fulfil.
ISAAC WATTS.
OUR thoughts, good or bad, are not in our command, but every one of
us has at all hours duties to do, and these he can do negligently,
like a slave, or faithfully, like a true servant. "Do the duty that
is nearest thee"—that first, and that well; all the rest will
disclose themselves with increasing clearness, and make their
successive demand. Were your duties never so small, I advise you,
set yourself with double and treble energy and punctuality, to do
them, hour after hour, day after day.
T. CARLYLE.
WHATEVER we are, high or lowly, learned or unlearned, married or
single, in a full house or alone, charged with many affairs or
dwelling in quietness, we have our daily round of work, our duties
of affection, obedience, love, mercy, industry, and the like; and
that which makes one man to differ from another is not so much what
things he does, as his manner of doing them.
H. E. MANNING.