| Finding the Way |
Chapter 12 |
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To each one his work is given. None are omitted or overlooked in the assignment – no one is left without some task. Duties are not given to some while others are sent out with nothing to do. We are all put into this world to work until our days of service here are closed.
“What are we set on earth for? Say, to toil;
Nor seek to leave thy tending of the vines,
For all the heat o’ the day, till it declines,
And death’s mild curfew shall from the work assoil.”
To each his own particular work is given. Not all have the same task, nor is the distribution of duties a haphazard one. People differ in abilities, and the tasks are suited to the hands. If, then, we do not do our own allotted work it will not be done, and there will be a blank in God’s universe where there ought to have been a piece of work well done. It matters not how small our part is, the doing of it perfectly is essential to the completeness of the Divine plan, and the failure to do it well will leave a flaw.
“One small life in God’s great plan!
How futile it seems as the ages roll,
Do what it may or strive how it can,
To alter the sweep of the infinite whole!
A single stitch in an endless web,
A drop in the ocean’s flow and ebb!
But the pattern is rent where the stitch is lost,
Or marred where the tangled threads have crossed;
And each life that fail of its true intent
Mars the perfect plan that the Master meant.”
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