The Void Between Intent and Performance
"We sing ‘Sweet Hour of
Prayer’–
and content ourselves with a few minutes of
prayer each day, if even that much.
We sing ‘Onward, Christian
soldiers’–
and wait to be pushed into the Lord’s
service.
We sing ‘O For a Thousand
tongues’–
without rightly using the tongue we have.
We sing ‘Blest Be the Tie That
Binds’–
and let the least little offense sever it.
We sing ‘Serve the Lord With
Gladness’–
and gripe about all we have to do.
We sing ‘I Love to Tell the
Story’–
and never mention it all year to our friends
and associates.
we sing ‘Cast Thy Burden on the
Lord’–
and worry ourselves into nervous breakdowns.
We sing "The Whole Wide World for
Jesus’–
and never invite our next-door neighbors to
church.
We sing ‘Throw Out the Life
Line’–
and content ourselves with throwing out a
fishing line on Sunday."
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