| Strength and Beauty |
Chapter 4 |
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Still and always, however, this is the lesson set for us – the doing of God’s will on earth as it is done in heaven, as we ourselves shall do it in heaven when we reach that happy home. If your heart is full of love for Christ the doing of the will of God will always be sweet, even though it be against nature and at the cost of much self denial. It has been said very truly: “The outside world takes all its color, value, and grace from the kind of world one carries about in one’s self.” Heaven in us will make the hardest tasks a delight.
“Yet more and more this truth doth shine
From failure and from loss;
The will that runs traverse to thine
Doth thereby make its cross.
Thine upright will cuts straight and still
Through pride and dream of dross.
“But if in parallel with thine
My will doth meekly run,
All things in heaven and earth are mine,
My will is crossed by none.
Thou art in me, and I in thee–
Thy will and mine are done.”
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