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Chapter 3 |
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Let us at least beware that we do not bow out of our door with fretted frown one whom God has sent to us either with a message or a benediction for us, which must be carried on to some other, since we reject it. For even in these prosaic days Heaven sends angels, though they may come unawares, not wearing their celestial robes, but disguised in unattractive garb.
Such a simple consecration is easily understood, and becomes very practical as we carry it out in life. It deals with living in its details, and not in the mass – in the concrete, and not merely in the abstract. It is not theory alone, but practice also. And it seems easier to give just one short day at a time than to try to span far stretching years in our consecration. A day is a short reach. We can bear almost any burden or interruption for so brief a period. Then it gives a holy meaning to the common week day routine of work and contact with other lives to live in this simple way. All work is divinely allotted, and the voice of our loving Lord is heard calling us at every turn. It imparts sacredness to all our meetings – even our most casual meetings with others. There is no chance that the eternal God does not guide. You have an errand to every one who comes in your path, or he has an errand to you. You may be very weary, but if there is a call for Christ like ministry you must obey it. You may have your wrapper and slippers on after a hard day’s work and outside it may be dark and stormy. But no matter; either you must withdraw your morning’s consecration, or you must follow the voice that calls you to deeds of mercy and love.
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