Do Something for God, by Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)

• You were neither born nor re-born for yourselves alone.
• You may not be able to do much but do something. Work while it is day.
• You may not be able to give much, but give something according to your ability, remembering that the Lord loves a cheerful giver.

Take heed, and beware of covetousness, for the love of money is the root of all evil. Whenever worldliness comes in, in any shape, whether it be the love of money or pleasure, you cease to be faithful to Christ and are trying to serve both God and mammon.

‘I am the Lord that brings you up out of the land of Egypt to be your God: you shall therefore be holy, for I am holy’ (Lev 11:45).

God calls us to be holy.

• He becomes our God to make us like Himself.
• He calls us to be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.’
• He expects that we should represent Him among our fellow men by our resemblance to Himself.

God calls us to be holy.

• He expects us to grow in unlikeness to this world and in likeness to that world which is to come.
• He expects us to follow Him who did no sin, even though the attainment of perfection should not be in a day or a year but the growth of a lifetime. It is for lack of daily growth, not for lack of complete and constant sinlessness that God so often challenges His own.

Let us grow. Let us bring forth fruit. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.

You are in Christ!

Do you say that you are in Christ and that you are abiding in Him? Then you ought to walk as He walked. You are bound to follow His footsteps.

We seek henceforth conformity to Him who has set us free and who bids us follow Him in the path of conformity to the Father’s will.

Love Him who has brought our souls out of prison — by going into prison for us!