April 20

Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?—Acts 9:6.

IS this the great question—the sincere question—the habitual question of my life? Is the will of God my pleasure, and the work of God my choice and delight? Do I seek to do good to all, and at all times, as the providence of God may open the way for it? Is it my earnest prayer and chief desire that I may be diligent and faithful in following the example of him whose meat and drink it was to do the will of God?

My heaven is to please God and glorify him; to give all to him; to be diligent in his work, and wholly devoted to his glory. That is the heaven that I long for; that is my religion, and that is my happiness.—ADEN.

A man sincerely obedient will not pick and choose what commands to obey, and what to reject. He will lay such a charge upon his whole man as the mother of Christ did on the servants at the feast. "Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it." Eyes, ears, hands, heart, body, soul, do you all seriously and lovingly observe and diligently do whatever Christ says unto you?—T. BROOKS.

At evening to myself I say,

Where hast thou been and gleaned to-day, Thy labors how bestowed?

What hast thou rightly said or done?

What grace attained, what knowledge won, In following after God?—C. WESLEY.