Work Done for Christ

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Both in belief and in duty this is the work of the Holy Spirit—to make belief profound by showing us the hearts of the things that we believe in, and to make duty delightful by setting us to doing it for Christ. Oh, in this world of shallow believers and weary, dreary workers, how we need that Holy Spirit! Remember, we may go our way, ignoring all the time the very forces that we need to help us do our work. The forces still may help us. The Holy Spirit may help us—will surely help us—just as far as He can, even if we do not know His name, or ever call upon Him. But there is so much more that He might do for us if we would only open our hearts and ask Him to come into them.
—Phillips Brooks

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