human
Ye are the light of the world. But will something within us object and say,
gpt
Shining means burning up and burning out: the candle will grow shorter, and the battery weaker ? Now here we get at the root of the matter. Truly it is impossible to offer any real devotion to God, or perform any real service to man, unless we are willing to pay the cost. We are not to offer, either to God or man, of that which costs us nothing. The noblest thing in God's world is a lavished life; whereof God has given us plain proof in this--that
human
He so loved the world that He gave His Son ; and which Paul confirms as he says to some of those to whom he had been the means of bringing light,
gpt
I will most gladly spend and be spent for you.
human
I will burn up for you, and then when I am burnt out, I will be content with the mere candle-end of a life, extinct for the love of Jesus. And let us remember, too, that old proverb, that
gpt
You can't burn a candle at both ends.