It is difficult to make the glory of God the primary desire, goal, and motivation for our ministry. As one Puritan writer said, it is “as hard as to keep our eye fixed on a single object through an optic glass, held by a trembling hand.”1 In the last chapter, we said the Puritans kept their focus by enjoying daily communion with the Lord. At the heart of their piety was a thirst for communion with Christ. Communing with the Lord kept their eyes on their goal,
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