June 14
Leave no duty undone
“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin” (James 4:17).
“So did Joshua; he left nothing undone” (Josh. 11:15).
No matter what the form of the temptation may be, he who, when convinced of his duty, yet takes no corresponding action, is on the highroad to perdition. Inevitably this bondage grows stronger and stronger with every fresh trial of its strength.
Every time you are convinced of duty and yet resist that conviction and refuse to act in accordance with it, you become more and more helpless; you commit yourself more and more to the control of your iron-hearted master. Every fresh case renders you only the more fully a helpless slave.
—Charles G. Finney.
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