There is no higher fellowship with God than fellowship in His saving work of love. And great is the reward, too, on those around us. When others are won to 116 Christ, when the weary and the erring and the desponding are helped and made partakers of the grace and life there are in Christ Jesus for them, God s servants share in the very joy in which our blessed Lord found His recompense. And now the chief thing. Teach them to believe that it is possible for each of us to abound in good works.
Nothing is so fatal to successful effort as discouragement or despondency.
Nothing is more a frequent cause of neglect of good works than the fear that we have not the power to perform them. Put them in mind of the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in them. Strive to waken in them a faith in the power that worketh in us, and in the fulness of that life which can flow out as rivers of living water. Train them to begin at once their service of love. Lead them to see how it is all God working in them, and to offer themselves as empty vessels to be filled with His love and grace.