When you have no vision from God, no enthusiasm left in your life,
and no one watching and encouraging you, it requires the grace of
Almighty God to take the next step in your devotion to Him, in the
reading and studying of His Word, in your family life, or in your duty
to Him. It takes much more of the grace of God, and a much greater
awareness of drawing upon Him, to take that next step, than it does to
preach the gospel.
Every Christian must experience the essence of the incarnation by
bringing the next step down into flesh-and-blood reality and by working
it out with his hands. We lose interest and give up when we have no
vision, no encouragement, and no improvement, but only experience our
everyday life with its trivial tasks. The thing that really testifies
for God and for the people of God in the long run is steady
perseverance, even when the work cannot be seen by others. And the only
way to live an undefeated life is to live looking to God. Ask God to
keep the eyes of your spirit open to the risen Christ, and it will be
impossible for drudgery to discourage you. Never allow yourself to think
that some tasks are beneath your dignity or too insignificant for you
to do, and remind yourself of the example of Christ inJohn 13:1-17 .
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