May 29

Service

“Whose I am, and whom I serve.”
— Acts 27:23

“Living to God inwardly is the only possible means of living to Him outwardly. All outward activity not moved … by this … tends to make us do without Christ, and brings in self. … I dread great activity without great communion.”

“What need we have to cast ourselves entirely on Him (the Spirit) in the work, and how simple it is when we do this! There is one thing that gives strength and that is to keep close to Christ. … The pressure of the work without that … contracts the heart, tends to make us lose that largeness of heart, that capacity of presenting the love of God freshly to souls.”