God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
A good many are kept out of the service of Christ, deprived of the luxury of working for God, because they are trying to do some great thing. Let us be willing to do little things. And let us remember that nothing is small in which God is the source.
All of our offerings without the Holy Spirit are an offense to God. All our efforts to reach the haven of eternal rest without the heavenly Sanctifier and Comforter are unavailing. No mental and moral culture secures the growth of right principles and affections without His efficiency. For no blessing is a good man more earnest in supplication than for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
