Keep Heaven in View

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The traveler does not think of his journey’s end every step of the way, but he does have it in mind sufficient to not turn aside out of the way. In all your ways of life keep God in mind. Attend to this with all diligence. Let God be the end you have in view in all your actions. Let me give you a few daily rules to walk by.

First, never lie down to your night’s sleep without thinking that you are not doing this for your own comfort, but that a servant of God may be refreshed end better fitted for the work God has given him to do.

Second, never rise up without the thoughts, “I arise in the name of the Lord to do all this day that will please Him most.”

Third, never set about your daily work without the thought that I am doing this not as my appointed wotk, but as the work God has apnointed and I do it out of love to Him.

Fourth, never sit down at your table without thinking, “I will now eat and drink, not to merely feed my flesh, but to nourish a servant of Christ that he may have strength for God’s service.”

Examine yourself in the evening to see if you have kept these things, in mind. Do better tomorrow than you did today. When you get to doing all things with heaven in view and doing all things for God’s sake, you are then enjoying a walk through life with God.