In our church bulletin this morning was a quote from J. Hudson Taylor. I wanted to share it.
It is not for God’s glory that His service should be, or should appear to be, a toilsome slavery, wearing out the life and the joy of those engaged in it. On the contrary, the Lord’s people should always, with tell-tale faces, be unconsciously proclaiming that His service is a service of freedom, that the joy of the Lord is their strength, that He leads His own by right paths, and that He glorifies His own great Name in them, and through them continually. May the Lord give us all the joy of realizing that for His own Name’s sake, that for His own credit’s sake, He will renew our strength as we wait upon Him.
“This day is holy to our Lord. Do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10 NASB).
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