Work Aids Zeal
A. J. Gordon. Galatians 4:18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. When Dr. Kane was in the Arctic regions he one day wanted to light a fire, and being away from camp where he could not get matches, he took a piece of ice, clear as crystal, and cutting it into the shape of a convex lens, he held it up to the sun, and in a few moments kindled a pile of dry leaves and sticks into a blaze. I presume the ice in its turn was melted in the fire it had kindled. If any one of us are in a cold state religiously; if in the place of a heart glowing with the love of Christ which we once had, we have only a frozen lump of religious respectability in our bosom, I wish we could go among the lost and sinning and impenitent, and just tell them as best we can how Christ died to save them, and I believe it would open their hearts as the sunlight opens the frozen bulbs. And in Him our own hearts would be thawed and melted. (A. J. Gordon.) Parallel Verses KJV: But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. WEB: But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.