The king's business required haste. 1 Samuel 21:8
And see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not. 2 Chronicles 24:5
SA 21:8{CH 24:5{And yet there is no other business about which the average Christians take it so easy. They "must" go their usual round, they "must" write their letters, they "must" pay off their visits and other social claims, they "must" do all that is expected of them; and then, after this and that and the other thing is cleared off, they will do what they can of the King's business. They do not say "must" about that, unless it is some part of His business which is undertaken at second-hand, and with more sense of responsibility to one's "clergyman" than to one's King. Is this being faithful and loyal and single hearted? If it has been so, oh, let it be so no more! How can "Jesus Only" be our motto, when we have not even said, "Jesus First"?
But if ye dare not hold it fast, yours only is the loss,
For it shall be victorious, this Standard of the Cross!
It shall not suffer, though ye rest beneath your sheltering trees,
And cast away the Victor's crown for love of timid ease.