GOD'S HOUSE AND YOUR OWN HOUSE

GOD’S HOUSE AND YOUR OWN HOUSE

A new path now lies before you. You must come out in quite new colours, not assumed ones, but the expression of power and feeling within. You will be now very much in the pastoral position, and that also of the overseer. You will have to bear the burden of your own house as well as that of the house of God before Him. You should be the man of weight, not because you demand respect, but because you feel your load, and look to the Lord to guide you under it. You should have the sense of responsibility before the Lord, and not demand acknowledgment from men of your own position. It should be the steady, unpretentious pull of the great draught horse, who thinks only of his duty, and not of what the spectators think or do. God’s house is not to be neglected for your own ^[p. 41] house, nor is your own house to be neglected for God’s house. Like Solomon, you have built your own house, but you have to give your attention as he did to God’s house. Wherever you fail in your own house, either in your ways or in any way, you are sure to carry the leaven of that dereliction into the house of God, so that your own house is your training ground, and the church the field-day.

Your prosperity will be a great joy to me.