Let the righteousness of the Righteous One be your daily covering.
Don't dally with error, and don't tamper with truth. 'Buy the truth' at any price; but 'sell it not' for all the gold and silver on earth.
But the love of controversy is pernicious, even when it takes the side of truth. The man who likes better to be fighting about his food than eating it, is likely to remain lean enough.
Deal honestly with every part of your daily life; in regard to duty, or trial, or sacrifice, or self-denial, or forbearance with others.
We have few excuses for others, many for ourselves; evils that seem monstrous in others are trifles in us.
If you are one given to the divine companionship, you will be saved from much idle and wasteful society and conversation. You will not feel at home with worldly men, nor they with you.
Do not conform to the world in order to please men or to save yourself from their taunt or jest.
Go where you please, if you can take Jesus with you; go nowhere if He cannot be admitted, or if you are obliged for the time to conceal or disguise your divine discipleship.
You must go straight to Jesus with that cold heart, and warm it at His cross, then your work for Him will be at once a necessity, a delight, and a success.
Let your reading be always select and whatever you read, begin with seeking God's blessing on it.
But see that your relish for the Bible is above every other enjoyment. The moment you begin to feel greater relish for any other book, lay it down until you have sought deliverance from such a snare, and obtained from the Holy Spirit a more intense relish, and a keener appetite for the Word of God!
Keep self in the background, and don't say or do anything that looks like baiting your hook for a little praise.
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.
[Horatius Bonar]
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