| The Beauty of Self Control |
Chapter 15 |
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Yet, somehow, many Christians seem not to understand this. Not everyone who bears the name of Christ sings psalms and hymns and spiritual songs in his daily life. There are Christians who are not always sweet and songful. Some are gloomy, unsympathetic, and cynical. One man said of his neighbour, “I am sure he is a Christian, but he is a disagreeable one.” Of another man, in contrast with this one, a neighbour said that other people learned at his feet the kindliness, the gentleness, the sympathy, the considerateness of Christ himself. He lived psalms and hymns wherever he went.
God wants our lives to be songs every day, every night, everywhere. He makes the music bars for us and we are to set the notes on them. The notes are our obediences. God’s will is an anthem set for us to sing. There never would be any discords in the music if we always did God’s will and did it sweetly. Any disobedience, however, any wrong thing we do, any unloving thing, will break the harmony. A perfectly holy life would be a faultless song.
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