“Ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.” 2 Corinthians 4:5
We must remember that for Christ’s sake we are the servants of others, and we should not only devote our time and strength to them, but also let our affections go out to them. God’s demands of those who serve him are very exacting. They allow us no leisure for self-occupation. If we cling to our pleasures and griefs, grudging to let go of our own interests, we shall be like a room that is too full of furniture to accommodate anything more.
To put it differently, we shall have expended all our emotions on ourselves and will have none to spare for others. We need to realize that there is a limit to our soul-strength, just as there is to the strength of our bodies. Our emotional powers are not boundless. If we exhaust our sympathies in one direction, we shall have none to give in another. Let us learn to enter into the feelings of others for the sake of him who entered into ours.
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