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Choosing My Lifework, August 2
Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare
it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every
man’s work of what sort it is.
1 Corinthians 3:13
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We should carefully weigh the matters relative to the work we take
up. Will this work be a blessing to souls? God has not given us work
merely to keep us busy, but for His name’s glory. Many are busily engaged
gathering wood, hay, stubble. But this will all be consumed....
By God’s appointment each man has his post of duty. The careful,
prayerful inquiry is to be made, What duty is assigned us individually, as
men and women under accountability to God? And whether our labor be
wholly limited to spiritual things, or whether it is temporal and spiritual
combined, we are to faithfully discharge our work. Things secular and
things sacred must be combined, but spiritual things are not to be hidden
by secular matters. Christ requires the service of the whole being, the
physical, mental, and moral powers combined. These are to be enlisted
in God’s service. Man is to remember that God has the ownership of
all, and that his pursuits are invested with a sacredness that they did not
possess before he enlisted in the army of the Lord. Every action is to be a
consecrated action, for it occupies God’s entrusted talent of time. Holiness
unto the Lord is inscribed on all the actions of such a one, because his
whole being is brought under subjection to God.
No business is to be undertaken, even in ordinary life, if it is corrupting
in its influence upon the senses. We are in the Lord’s training school, and
He has His own appointed means whereby we may be brought into His
service.... Many are troubled because they are not working directly for
the advancement of God’s kingdom. But the humblest work must not be
ignored. If it is honest work, it is a blessing, and may lead to the higher
parts of the work.
Whether we have one year before us, or five, or ten, we are to be
faithful to our trust today. We are to perform each day’s duties as faithfully
as though that day were to be our last.
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