My First Order of the Morning....

Ponder the following words from the famous 'orphanage' missionary of the past, George Mueller.

“It has recently pleased the Lord to teach me a truth….the benefit of which I have not lost. "
"The point is this: I saw more clearly than ever that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord.""The first thing to be concerned about was not how much I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man might be nourished. "
"For I might seek to set the truth before the unconverted, I might seek to benefit believers, I might seek to relieve the distressed, I might in other ways seek to behave myself as it becomes a child of God in this world; and yet, not being happy in the Lord, and not being nourished and strengthened in my inner man day by day, all this might not be attended to in a right spirit."

"How different, when the soul is refreshed and made happy early in the morning, from what it is when, without spiritual preparation, the service, the trials, and the temptations of the day come upon one!"

- George Mueller

A more complete excerpt can be found at:
http://foundationsforfreedom.net/Topics/Devotions/Devotions020.html