Reckon not duties by high expressions, but by low humble frames of heart, and the beholding of Christ. Tremble at religious duties and spiritual gifts. It was the saying of a great saint, “He was more afraid of his duties than of his sins”; they often made him proud, the other always made him humble. Treasure up manifestations of Christ’s love, they make the heart low for Christ, too high for sin. Despise not the lowest, smallest evidence of grace; God may put you to make use of the lowest as you think; even that may be worth a thousand worlds to you (I John 3:14).
