March 30

Devotedness

“I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus.”
— Phil. 3:8

“We have to live in natural ties as those who are not in them, to act from Christ in them.”

“You may be blessed to your husband … as strengthening and comforting and encouraging him … in the weariness and trials which accompany the service. But do not seek to relax his energy. A wife sometimes likes to have her husband for herself, and when her husband is the Lord's labourer it is a great evil. I have known a wife spoil a labourer … in this way. A husband is bound to care for his wife, consider her, and do anything but neglect her … but the wife of a labourer for the Lord must put his work and labour before herself. … A wise wife who seeks first the Lord herself, puts Him first for her husband, and does not love him the less; it is a bond, and her husband will honour and value her, and so will the Lord.”