Persistence of the spiritual yearning is often ruined by side interests. God wants His people to talk Christ and to think Christ and to dream Christ and to love His Word and His ways and to be so dedicated to it that the conversation normally swings around to it when they\u2019re together. And I do not believe that God can continue to bless nor send anything like a life-giving revival to a church until we are absorbed in it. To get anything done, you\u2019ve go to be absorbed in it.<\/p>\n
Nobody ever did anything when he only did it halfway. Men who have done great things have always had to be dedicated men. To make the electric light and the talking machine, Edison slept only four or five hours a night and worked constantly. To compose great musical scores, men have sat up all through the night. Tchaikovsky used to stay awake hours upon hours; when others were sleeping, he would be working. My opinion of Tchaikovsky\u2019s music is such that I wonder why he didn\u2019t just take a nap. But anyway, what I\u2019m saying is that in order to get it done, he had to stay awake and do it. Byron, one of the great English poets, said, \u201cI shut myself in my room and work as much as 18 hours at a stretch, never even get out to take a drink of tea.\u201d And that\u2019s something for an Englishman. So you have to be interested in something.\u2026<\/p>\n
I recently read the words of a great Christian leader who has been around the world several times. He said, \u201cThe only religion that I have found in the world that people don\u2019t take seriously is Christianity. The Buddhists take themselves seriously. The Mohammedans take themselves seriously.\u201d But Christians play at it too much. We have the truth that would save the world and we\u2019re the ones who play like children in the marketplace (Luke 7:32). We\u2019ve got to be absorbed in the Lord\u2019s doings.<\/p>\n
Deuteronomy 6:4\u20139; Luke 7:32; Colossians 3:23<\/p>\n
Success and the Christian,<\/i> 97, 98.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Persistence of the spiritual yearning is often ruined by side interests. God wants His people to talk Christ and to think Christ and to dream Christ and to love His Word and His ways and to be so dedicated to it that the conversation normally swings around to it when they\u2019re together. And I do … Continue reading “DEDICATION;
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