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  EVERYONE'S RESPONSIBILITY
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: We are called to live a life of pleasing God, not just in grand
acts of service, but in the everyday tasks and duties of our daily
lives.

Topics: "Christian Living", "Godly Character"
Scripture References: Psalm 37:23, Colossians 3:3-17, 1 Peter 3:4

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of living a life hidden
in Christ, focusing on the love that the Lord seeks within our deeds
rather than just the outward appearance. She highlights the duty for
all, regardless of status or circumstances, to exhibit compassion,
kindness, humility, patience, forgiveness, and to seek to please God in
all things. Tileston encourages believers to lead lives that are
pleasing to God, reflecting His will on earth as the angels do in
heaven.

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Your life is hid with Christ in God.

--COLOSSIANS 3:3

Put on therefore a heart of compassion, kindness, humility,
longsuffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving each other; even as
the Lord forgave you so also do ye.

--COLOSSIANS 3:12-13 (R. V.)

IT is not the deed we do,

Though the deed be never so fair,

But the love that the dear Lord looketh for,

Hidden with holy care

In the heart of the deed so fair.

--HARRIET MCEWEN KIMBALL

THESE are duties which belong to us alike, what.ever our outward lot be,
whether rich or poor, hon.ored or despised, amid outward joys or
sorrows. For as our life is hidden in Christ, so have we all an outward
and an inward, a hidden life. Outwardly, we seem busied for the most
part about common things, with trivial duties, worthless tasks. Inwardly
we are, or ought to be, studying how, in all, to please God, walking in
His sight, doing them in His Presence, seeking to know how He would have
them done. So amid trivial things we may be, nay men are, in every
station of life, pleasing God, that is, leading angels' lives, in that
they are doing His will on earth, as the angels in heaven. They are
"servants of His, doing His pleasure."

--EDWARD B. PUSEY

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/everyones-responsibility/
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