Russell A. Cardwell Online

A simple rule of thumb:

If you can’t worship while you’re doing it, you shouldn’t be doing it.

This was one of those messages that showed up unbidden during my class on worship. The topic was “worshipping all the time.” It seems like a good maxim for those times when we are looking for clear direction in unclear situations.

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

—1 Corinthians 10:31

And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

—Colossians 3:17

If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.

—1 Peter 4:11

The soul learns which activities bring God’s presence nearer. It remains in His presence by practicing those activities.

—Brother Lawrence

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