February 24

Action

“Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” (Luke 2:49).
“Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord” (Rom. 12:11).

Christian life is action; not a speculating, or a debating, but a doing. One thing, and only one, in this world has eternity stamped on it. Feelings pass; resolves and thoughts pass; opinions change. What you have done lasts—lasts in you. Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.
—F. W. Robertson.

Make haste, O man, to do
Whatever must be done;
Thou hast no time to lose in sloth,
Thy day will soon be gone.

Up then with speed, and work;
Fling ease and self away;
This is no time for thee to sleep,
Up, watch, and work and pray!

The useful, not the great,
The thing that never dies;
The silent toil that is not lost—
Set these before thine eyes,
—Horatius Bonar.

The world will steal upon us if we do not watch continually. No man, as a Christian, should be found on the same spot two days together.
What are you waiting for? Is it some unseen event which is to lift you out of your deathly state and stranded position—that indefinite, undefined “something,” which “somehow” is to put things all right? Ah, don’t be deceived; tidal waves don’t sweep across stagnant pools.

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