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We get into the habit of talking about Christian life and work as if it were something altogether apart from common work, the work we do on our business days. But if we are living as we should, everything we are called to do is work for Christ. We need heavenly grace for our secular tasks and duties quite as much as for our religious services and occupations. It is said that at a certain moment of the night a man in the Lick Observatory, California, lying upon his back, looks out through the great telescope and waits for a certain star to cross a fine line made by the tiny thread of a spider’s web drawn across the telescope. This indicates the time, and from this indication the great clock is set. Thus a star from heaven directs the movements of all the railway trains, all shops and factories, all business of every kind in all the vast region. So we are to get light from heaven for all our life on earth, not only for our worship, our religious activities, our Christian service, but for our business affairs, our amusements, all our tasks and duties, our home maters, our plans and pleasures. The light of the star regulates everything. The smallest things in our lives should get their inspiration from heaven. All life should follow the star.
Thus we are ever being called to a new life, a holier life, greater activity, and better service. “Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.” Break away from the routine. Do not keep on doing just what you have been doing heretofore. Do not be content to go over the same old rounds. Turn northward — start in new lines, with your face toward God. Do larger things than you have done heretofore. Pray more fervently. Love better, more sweetly, more helpfully. Love where heaven will break into your soul. Let Christ have all your life. Do not merely go round the mountain’s base — climb up its side. Every time you compass it, gain a little higher range, get nearer heaven, nearer God.
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