Listen carefully, my son, to the master's instructions, and attend to them with the ear of your heart. This is advice from a father who loves you; welcome it, and faithfully put it into practice.
The labor of obedience will bring you back to him from whom you had drifted through the sloth of disobedience.
This message of mine is for you, then, if you are ready to give up your own will, once and for all, and armed with the strong and noble weapons of obedience to do battle for the true King, Christ the Lord.
First of all, every time you begin a good work, you must pray to him most earnestly to bring it to perfection.
Let us get up then, at long last, for the Scriptures rouse us when they say: It is high time for us to arise from sleep. Let us open our eyes to the light that comes from God, and our ears to the voice from heaven that every day calls out this charge.
If you hear his voice today, do not harden your hearts. And again: You that have ears to hear, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches.
Therefore we intend to establish a school for the Lord's service. In drawing up its regulations, we hope to set down nothing harsh, nothing burdensome.
The good of all concerned, however, may prompt us to a little strictness in order to amend faults and to safeguard love.
Do not be daunted immediately by fear and run away from the road that leads to salvation. It is bound to be narrow at the outset.
But as we progress in this way of life and in faith, we shall run on the path of God's commandments, our hearts overflowing with the inexpressible delight of love.
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