Saints often think that it is an easy thing to serve God. But no; it is a hard thing to serve Him in spirit and in truth. To serve God in the sense of our being nothing and His being everything is a hard thing. The place of a servant is to hide himself and let God appear. It was thus with the perfect servant. Service should be connected with the being in secret with God. Thus we should serve happily and holily, desiring to glorify Him in our bodies and spirits.
The Christian Friend (1874)