August 4
Daily Cheer for All the YearWe desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end. —HEB. vi, II.
Thou strictly hast enjoined us, Lord, To learn Thy sacred will; And all our diligence employ Thy statutes to fulfill.
O then that Thy most holy will Might o'er my ways preside; And I the course of all my life By Thy direction guide!
Be diligent, after thy power, to do deeds of love. Think nothing too little, nothing too low, to do lovingly for the sake of God. Bear with infirmities, ungentle tempers, contradictions; visit, if thou mayest, the sick; relieve the poor; forego thyself and thine own ways for love; and He whom in them thou lovest, to whom in them thou ministerest, will own thy love, and will pour His own love into thee.
E. B. PUSEY.