DIG DEEP

“The great lesson for parents, teachers, pastors, reformers, patriots, is this: dig deep if you would have your house stand.  If you would not see your sons and daughters, your fellow-members or fellow-citizens swept round with the current, facing the wrong goal, exerting their influence for evil instead of for good, then do not be content with scattering seed anyhow and anywhere.  Dig the deep furrow, sow the seed well; plant living convictions in the judgment and in the conscience of men.  Get the whole nature on the side of truth and righteousness.  If the man himself, and not only his external habits, not only his feelings and inclinations; if he himself, through his whole spiritual nature, gives himself to the service of Christ and of man, you need not fear the coming of an adverse tide; you need not fret about the fickleness of our kind; you will witness no painful and pitiable reaction; the path of those you serve will be one of continuous ascent; it will be ‘the path of the just, shining brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.’”  

-C.  Pulpit Commentary, II Chronicles, pp.336

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