Diligent in Business, Seeking the Lord
In the shop, in the market, in the kitchen, in the study, in the street, and in the solitude, when we are thinking and toiling and striving ever, still to have our face set toward God, is blessed but difficult. Still, though difficult to unite, the two things are not incompatible. The world spins round, on its own axis in four and twenty hours, but that does not interfere with its annual revolution round its central sun. And it is possible for a man to be “diligent in business,” and yet in it all to be “seeking the Lord.” Nay, it is not possible for a man to be rightly “diligent in business” unless in it he is “seeking the Lord.”—A. Maclaren.