Peace From Wearying Labor
Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of maintaining unbroken communion with God to find peace, rest, and satisfaction in life.
Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of maintaining unbroken communion with God to experience peace, rest, and joy in our lives. She highlights the need to focus on giving perfect satisfaction to God rather than just getting through a great deal of work. Tileston encourages seeking fulfillment, peace, and rest in God's abiding joy, lifting our souls above worldly distractions to find solace in His presence.
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Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
JOB 12:21
DON'T be unwise enough to think that we are serving God best by constant activity at the cost of headaches and broken rest. I am getting to be of the opinion that we may be doing too much. We want at least this is my own want--a higher quality of work. Our labor should be to maintain unbroken communion with our blessed Lord; then we shall have entire rest, and God abiding in us; that which we do will not be ours, but His.
JOHN KENNETH MACKENZIE
OUR object in life should not be so much to get through a great deal of work, as to give perfect satisfaction to Him for whom we are doing the work.
WM. HAY M. H. AITKEN
Let me not seek out of Thee what I can only find in Thee, peace and rest and joy and bliss, which abide only in Thy abiding joy. Lift up my soul above the weary round of harassing thoughts to Thy eternal Presence. Lift up my soul to the pure, bright, clear, serene, radiant atmosphere of Thy Presence, that there I may breathe freely, there repose in Thy love, there be at rest from myself and from all things that weary me; thence return, arrayed with Thy peace, to do and bear what shall please Thee.
E. B. PUSEY
Sermon Outline
- Maintaining Unbroken Communion with God
- Our Object in Life
- Finding Peace and Rest in God
- Seeking peace and rest in God's presence
- Lifting up our souls to God's eternal presence
Key Quotes
“Let me not seek out of Thee what I can only find in Thee, peace and rest and joy and bliss, which abide only in Thy abiding joy.” — Mary Wilder Tileston
“Lift up my soul above the weary round of harassing thoughts to Thy eternal Presence.” — Mary Wilder Tileston
“Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.” — Mary Wilder Tileston
Application Points
- Make time for rest and satisfaction in God to avoid burnout and maintain a higher quality of work.
- Prioritize God's will over personal desires to find peace and rest in a busy world.
- Seek peace and rest in God's presence by lifting up your soul to His eternal presence.