THOUGHTS FROM THE MOUNT OF BLESSING: Audio & Pull Quotes- Chapter 4

The True Motive in Service

Audio:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/oTUlfHGSVbs?list=PLmtiSpKWaiFDemlnk34s9dzJ83TCOA9fP

Christ does not say that man will not or shall not serve two masters, but that he cannot.

The words of Christ on the mount were an expression of that which had been the unspoken teaching of His life,...In the secret place of prayer, where no eye but God's can see, no ear but His can hear, we may pour out our most hidden desires and longings to the Father of infinite pity, and in the hush and silence of the soul that voice which never fails to answer the cry of human need will speak to our hearts. The most eloquent prayers are but idle words if they do not express the true sentiments of the heart.

 Real godliness never prompts an effort at display. Those who desire words of praise and flattery, and feed upon them as a sweet morsel, are Christians in name only. *Your prayers, *your performance of duty, *your benevolence, *your self-denial, will not be the theme of your thought or conversation. Jesus will be magnified, self will be hidden,...The deeds of kindness may have been done in secret, but the result upon the character of the doer cannot be hidden.

Worldliness usurped the place of God and religion in the soul. So it is now. Avaricious greed for wealth exerts such a fascinating, bewitching influence over the life that it results in perverting the nobility and corrupting the humanity of men until they are drowned in perdition.

Yielding to temptation begins in permitting the mind to waver,...The prevalence of a sinful desire shows the delusion of the soul. Every indulgence of that desire strengthens the soul's aversion to God.
He who abides in darkness will at last lose the power of vision. The invitation of mercy is still full of love, the light is shining as brightly as when it first dawned upon his soul; but the voice falls on deaf ears, the light on blinded eyes.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1 John 2:15, 16