The holiest men have been the most studious. We should study and keep abreast of things spiritual and socially about us. The more we work on the soil the less we work on the crop. The more we work on the preacher the less we work on the sermon. Not a bookworm or a hermit, we can glory on the Mount but most people are in the valley.
Spiritual life is personal and a life of prayer and study in balance.
Integrity will help us in our duty to both family and home. Duty to family is as high and sacred as duty to the church. We pray Lord make me a better Christian, a better husband or wife, a better servant of God, and a better pastor. The danger of losing the challenge, is when we begin to count our trophies rather than to get involved in the cause. We are still in the world, people are still lost, and the gospel of Jesus Christ is still the same, powerful to save to the uttermost.