Service and Communion

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"...In connection with your work, dear brother, seek the Lord's face, and lean on Him. When the body is not robust, one is in danger of doing it as a task, as an obligation, and the spirit becomes a little legal; or one yields to weariness, and is discouraged before God. Work is a favor which is granted us. Be quite peaceful and happy in the sense of grace; then go and pour out that peace to souls. This is true service, from which one returns very weary, it may be, 'in body, but sustained and happy; one rests beneath God's wings, and takes up the service again till the true rest comes. Our strength is renewed like the eagle's. Ever remember, ` My grace is sufficient for thee, and my strength is made perfect in weakness.' May communion with God be your chief concern, and the sweet relationships in which we are placed with Him. All is well when we walk in them; then we discern and judge everything day by day, which hinders communion, and so the heart does not become hard nor the conscience blunted, and we really enjoy those communications of grace which give strength. Yes, seek above all personal communion with the Lord."