It appears that too many Christians want to enjoy the thrill of feeling right but are not willing to endure the inconvenience of being right.

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.

Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience.

The way to deeper knowledge of God is through the lonely valleys of soul poverty and abnegation of all things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdom are they who have repudiated every external thing and have rooted from their hearts all sense of possessing. These are the 'poor in spirit.'

We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing world. We must resist every attempt of Satan to palm off upon us the values that belong to mortality. Nothing less than forever is long enough for us.

May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.