p. 597 | Keep Your Heart

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 30, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 38.

Keep Your Heart

HE that would love and serve God acceptably and at all times must “keep his heart with all diligence,” for if the heart goes wrong, all about him and in him is wrong. There is no true service of God that is not heart-service. It is the hardest of hard things for a man to keep his feet in the way of uprightness, when he undertakes to do so without the leading and co-operation of the heart. Such a serving of the Lord will be like swallowing the bitterest of medicine, or doing menial service against our will. It is also without any kind of value, and will be of no possible use to us, nor to God. It makes life a drudgery and the claims of religion hateful. The heart must be kept—kept full of love to God, and full of faith in Christ. Then will the law of God be the delight of the soul, and the service of God be the joy of our life. We will run in the way of his commandments when our heart inclines to his service, and in the keeping of his law we will find a great reward.—Methodist Recorder.