Be Ye Steadfast, Unmovable

If our hearts are not close to Christ, we are apt to get weary of the way.

All is a vain show around us, but that which is inside abides, and is true, being the life of Christ;
all else goes! When the heart gets hold of this fact it becomes (as to things around) like one taken
into a house to work for the day, who performs the duties well, but passes through, instead of
living in the circumstances. To Israel the cloud came down, and they stayed; and it lifted up, and
on they went. It was all the same to them. Why? Because, had they stayed when the cloud went
on, they would not have had the Lord. One may be daily at the desk for fifty years, yet with
Christ, the desk is only the circumstance; it is the doing God’s will, making manifest the savor
of Christ, which is the simple and great thing. Whether I go or you go_I stay or you stay_may
that one word be realized in each of us:"Steadfast, unmovable". In whatever sphere as a matter
of Providence we may be found, let the divine life be manifested, Christ manifested. This abides,
all else changes, but the life remains and abides for ever, yes, for ever.
    Not a single thing in which we have served Christ shall be forgotten. Lazy, alas! we all
are in service, but all shall come out that is real, and what is real is Christ in us, and this only.
The appearance now may be very little_not much even in a religious view, but what is real will
abide.

Our hearts clinging closely to Christ, we shall sustain one another in the body of Christ, the love
of Christ shall hold the whole together, Christ being everything, and we content to be nothing,
helping one another, praying one for the other. I ask not the prayers of the saints, I reckon on
them. The Lord keep us going on in simplicity, fulfilling as the hireling our day till Christ shall
come, and then "shall every man have praise of God." Praise of God! Be that our object, and may
God knit all our hearts together thoroughly and eternally.