September 22

Cheerful service

“I will very gladly spend and be spent for you” (2 Cor. 12:15).
“Serve the Lord with gladness” (Psa. 100:2).
“Freely ye have received, freely give” (Matt. 10:8).
Dole not thy duties out to God,
But let thy hand be free.
—F. W. Faber.

As you do His will, do not go about it with a groan and a murmur, but do it with a desire to be well-pleasing in His sight. Sometimes your boy does what you tell him to do, but he does it with such a dark face, and moaning over it all the time. At another time he is glad to do what you tell him, with a bright face and a smile, and that sort of work is worth ten times the other kind.

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