1 Timothy 4:15
True Heart Energy - “Meditate
upon these things, give thyself wholly tothem; that thy profiting
may appear to all.”
THIS is, practically, a
promise that, by diligent meditation and the giving up of our
whole mind to our work for the Lord, we shall make a progress
which all can see. Not by hasty reading, but by deep meditation,
we profit by the Word of God. Not by doing a great deal of work in
a slovenly manner, but by giving our best thought to what we
attempt, we shall get real profit. “In all labor there is
profit,” but not in fuss and hurry without true heart energy.
If we divide ourselves
between God and mammon, or Christ and self, we shall make no
progress. We must give ourselves wholly to holy things, or else we
shall be poor traders in heavenly business; and at our
stock-taking, no profit will be shown.
Am I a minister? Let me be a
minister wholly, and not spend my energies upon secondary
concerns. What have I to do with party politics, or vain
amusements? Am I a Christian? Let me make my service of Jesus my
occupation, my lifework, my one pursuit. We must be in-and-in with
Jesus, and then out-and-out for Jesus, or else we shall make
neither progress nor profit, and neither the church nor the world
will feel that forceful influence which the Lord would have us
exercise.
