A Life for Christ: What the Normal Christian Life Should Look Like

by Dwight L. Moody

If you plan to wait until you find a perfect preacher or perfect meetings, I’m afraid you’ll have to wait until the millennium arrives.

I have often said that if I had to convict men of sin, I would have given up the job long ago. That is the work of the Holy Spirit. Our part is to scatter the good seed of the Word, and expect that God will bless it to the saving of men’s souls.

Let us give up one united cry to God, asking that He revive His work in our midst.

The goal of preaching is to reclaim the hearts of men for God, and nothing but love can find out the mysterious avenues which lead to the heart.

If we want to be wise in winning souls and to be vessels for the Master’s use, we must get rid of the accursed spirit of self-seeking.

A man can preach the truth. He can be perfectly sound in doctrine, but if there is no love in his heart going out to those whom he addresses, and if he is doing it only professionally, the apostle says he is only sounding brass.

But no one can be a true worker for God and a successful winner of souls without love.

When we reach a higher plane of love, it won’t be hard for us to work for the Lord. We will be glad to do anything, however small.

Love must be active. As someone has said, “A man can hoard up his money. He can bury his talents in a napkin, but there is one thing he can’t hoard up − love.” You can’t bury it. It must flow out from us. It can’t feed upon itself. It must have an object.

The Good Samaritan had love for the poor man who had fallen among thieves. If we are filled with such love as that, the world will soon find out that we are the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Unbelief is as much an enemy to the Christian as it is to the unconverted.

When we look back and think of what Christ did, how He poured out His blood so people could be saved, we should go forth in His strength and conquer the world.

If we have faith in God, we are perfectly able to go up and possess the land for Christ. God always delights to honor faith.

If a person is busy improving the talents God has given him, he will have too much to do to find fault and complain about others.

Be willing to do little things. Remember that nothing is small when God is in it.

To any Christian holding on to the world, you need to get into the Lord’s work, and the world will soon leave you.

There is no greater honor than being used as an instrument in God’s hand for leading a person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of heaven.