The blessedness of pleasing Him

“Wherefore also we are zealous, whether present or absent, to be agreeable to him“ (2 Cor 5:9).

When we consult Christ’s tastes, instead of our own, we are not less ready to spend and be spent for Him, but we serve in another way. It never occurs to us that what we are doing is a burden, when we work in answer to His mind; on the contrary, I have the assured sense of pleasing Him, and this is the greatest gratification of our love to Him.

We feel we cannot do enough. Instead of being wearied by our doings for Him, we feel that they are quite inadequate to express the delight which it gives us to do anything which would meet with His approbation. When we have the sense of pleasing Him our only thought is to do more; and our study, to follow on the lines that He likes.

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