Are there some things regarding your physical or intellectual life to which you have been paying no attention at all? If so, you may think you are all correct in important areas, but you are careless -- you are failing to concentrate or to focus properly.
You no more need a day off from spiritual concentration on matters in your life than your heart needs a day off from beating. As you cannot take a day off morally and remain moral, neither can you take a day off spiritually and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely His, and it requires paying close attentioin to keep yourself fit. It also takes a tremendous amount of time. Yet some of us expect to rise above all of our problems, going from one mountaintop experience to another, with only a few minutes effort.
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, 15 April
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