Let us begin from this moment to acknowledge Him in all our ways, and do
everything, whatsoever we do, as service to Him and for His glory, depending
upon Him alone for wisdom, and strength, and sweetness, and patience, and
everything else that is necessary for the right accomplishing of all our
living. It is not so much a change of acts that will be necessary, as a change
of motive and of dependence. The house will be kept, or the children cared for,
or the business transacted, perhaps, just the same as before as to the outward,
but inwardly God will be acknowledged, and depended on, and served; and there
will be all the difference between a life lived at ease in the glory of His Presence,
and a life lived painfully and with effort apart from Him. There will result
also from this bringing of God into our affairs a wonderful accession of divine
wisdom in the conduct of them, and a far greater quickness and despatch in
their accomplishment, a surprising increase in the fertility of resource, and
an enlargement on every side that will amaze the hitherto cramped and cabined
soul.
~ Hannah Whitall Smith
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