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  AS TO THE LORD
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of performing daily duties
with the intention of honoring God, transforming mundane tasks into
spiritual opportunities.

Topics: "Spiritual Growth", "Consecration"
Scripture References: Psalm 37:5, Psalm 101:2, Proverbs 16:3, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Colossians 3:23

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of consecrating even the
smallest daily duties to God, viewing them as opportunities for
spiritual growth and advancement. She encourages believers to approach
each task with a perfect heart, seeking to find delight in serving God
each day. By weaving the idea of dedicating all actions to God into the
fabric of our spiritual lives, even mundane tasks like social courtesies
can become avenues for drawing closer to Him.

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I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

--PSALMS 101:2

TEACH me, 0 God, Thy holy way,

And give me an obedient mind;

That in Thy service I may find

My soul's delight from day to day.

--WILLIAM TIDD MATSON

AS far as human frailty will permit, each little trifling piece of duty
which presents itself to us in daily life, if it be only a compliance
with some form of social courtesy, should receive a consecration, by
setting God--His will, word, and Providence--before us in it, and by
lifting up our hearts to Him in ejacu.latory prayer, while we are
engaged in it. The idea must be thoroughly worked into the mind, and
woven into the texture of our spiritual life, that the minutest duties
which God prescribes to us in the order of His Providence--a casual
visit, a letter of sympathy, an obligation of courtesy, are not by any
means too humble to be made means of spiritual advancement, if only the
thing be done "as to the Lord, and not to men." --EDWARD MEYRICK
GOULBURN

Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day
duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift thy heart thither.

--EDWARD B. PUSEY

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/as-to-the-lord/
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