No unwelcome tasks become any the less unwelcome by putting them off till tomorrow. It is only when they are behind us and done, that we begin to find that there is a sweetness to be tasted afterwards, and that the remembrance of unwelcome duties unhesitatingly done is welcome and pleasant. Accomplished, they are full of blessing, and there is a smile on their faces as they leave us. Undone, they stand threatening and disturbing our tranquility, and hindering our communion with God. If there be lying before you any bit of work from which you shrink, go straight up to it, and do it at once. The only way to get rid of it is to do it.
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Seek to cultivate a buoyant joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
Alexander MacLarenThe Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.
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Love is the foundation of all obedience.
Alexander MacLarenlove is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures will
Alexander MacLarenOh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as " in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us.
Alexander MacLarenSorrow and loss are meant to prepare us for the vision of God to purge the inward eye that it may see Him.
Alexander MacLarenHe that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
Alexander MacLarenChrist wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.
Alexander MacLarenThe tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. "He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.
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