the work with little fervor wrought

And today I generally goofed off. For a good deed, I fixed the podcast... which has been broken for two weeks without my noticing it, generally leading me to believe that it shall be fixed for another two weeks before anyone else notices that. It's the goofing off bit that worries me. I'm quite good at it. I watched a movie (which I never do except when I do) and fixed the podcast (okay, so that one is a good excuse--it took a long time) and organized my iTunes library and downloaded some D. A. Carson lectures and played with some graphics in Corel and talked to Robbie and is it ten o'clock already?

I have not served Thee as I ought--
Oh, the duties left undone!
The work with little fervor wrought,
The battles lost or scarcely won...
(Lord, give the zeal and give the might
For Thee to toil, for Thee to fight!)

I saw someone on Facebook today quote somebody famous (at least I assume he's famous), saying, "God doesn't call people who are qualified. He calls people who are willing and then He qualifies them." 

I'm so glad that's a false statement. I'm so thankful for Romans 8!! Thank God it's all of grace, because I'm willing in the truest sense of the term about oh, maybe three seconds a year? A decade? Thank God that He makes me willing, or as Jonathan Edwards said, tomorrow I would commit the most wicked sins I could conceive of. Like Spurgeon, I take great comfort and delight in one phrase--all of grace.