For my evening Devotion,I interchange between SOP books;but one book has really been revealing all my defects and I'm learning from it.It's called Help in Daily Living.I'll be sharing a few statements that have blessed and chastened me.I won't be commenting or trying to expound on them,since they are too potent to have me even add anything.May you be blessed and revived as I am.
"We need not keep our own record of trials and
difficulties, griefs, and sorrows. All these things are
written in the books, and heaven will take care of
them. While we are counting up the disagreeable things,
many things that are pleasant to reflect upon are passing
from memory, such as the merciful kindness of God
surrounding us every moment and the love over which
angels marvel, that God gave His Son to die for us. If
as workers for Christ you feel that you have had greater
cares and trials than have fallen to the lot of others,
remember that for you there is a peace unknown to those
who shun these burdens. There is comfort and joy in the
service of Christ. Let the world see that life with Him is
no failure."-p29
"We should not allow our feelings to be easily
wounded. We are to live, not to guard our feelings or our
reputation, but to save souls. As we become interested
in the salvation of souls we cease to mind the little
differences that so often arise in our association with one
another. Whatever others may think of us or do to us, it
need not disturb our oneness with Christ, the fellowship
of the Spirit. “What glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted
for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when
ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is
acceptable with God.” 1 Peter 2:20."p26
"It is through our failure to endure the tests that come to
us in little things, that the habits are molded, the character
misshaped; and when the greater tests come, they find us
unready. Only by acting upon principle in the tests of
daily life can we acquire power to stand firm and faithful
in the most dangerous and most difficult positions."p33
"We cannot afford to let our spirits chafe over any real
or supposed wrong done to ourselves. Self is the
enemy we most need to fear. No form of vice has a more
baleful effect upon the character than has human passion
not under the control of the Holy Spirit. No other victory
we can gain will be so precious as the victory gained over
self."p25,26
"We need not keep our own record of trials and
difficulties, griefs, and sorrows. All these things are
written in the books, and heaven will take care of
them. While we are counting up the disagreeable things,
many things that are pleasant to reflect upon are passing
from memory, such as the merciful kindness of God
surrounding us every moment and the love over which
angels marvel, that God gave His Son to die for us. If
as workers for Christ you feel that you have had greater
cares and trials than have fallen to the lot of others,
remember that for you there is a peace unknown to those
who shun these burdens. There is comfort and joy in the
service of Christ. Let the world see that life with Him is
no failure."-p29
"We should not allow our feelings to be easily
wounded. We are to live, not to guard our feelings or our
reputation, but to save souls. As we become interested
in the salvation of souls we cease to mind the little
differences that so often arise in our association with one
another. Whatever others may think of us or do to us, it
need not disturb our oneness with Christ, the fellowship
of the Spirit. “What glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted
for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when
ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is
acceptable with God.” 1 Peter 2:20."p26
"It is through our failure to endure the tests that come to
us in little things, that the habits are molded, the character
misshaped; and when the greater tests come, they find us
unready. Only by acting upon principle in the tests of
daily life can we acquire power to stand firm and faithful
in the most dangerous and most difficult positions."p33
"We cannot afford to let our spirits chafe over any real
or supposed wrong done to ourselves. Self is the
enemy we most need to fear. No form of vice has a more
baleful effect upon the character than has human passion
not under the control of the Holy Spirit. No other victory
we can gain will be so precious as the victory gained over
self."p25,26
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