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The
word zeal carries the idea of
enthusiastic devotion. One can survive
without zeal, but I don’t think one will ever fully be successful without it.
John
Milton got up at four o’clock every morning to work on
The
seventh-century English pastor Richard Baxter said he preached with great
intensity because he saw himself as a dying man ministering to dying
people. He always spoke as if he were
preaching his last sermon and as if his listeners were hearing their last
message. And what a schedule he
maintained for fifty years! On each
Monday and Tuesday he spent seven hours instructing the children of the parish,
not omitting even one. On Wednesday he
went from house to house to make sure the material needs of the widows, the
aged, and the infirm were met. During
the rest of the week he prepared his sermons and wrote books – a total of one
hundred sixty volumes. As a result of
his ministry, the town of
What to do:
✞ Remember, you can make it without zeal; but you can accomplish much more with it.
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