| Finding the Way |
Chapter 12 |
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We please God best and do the best work in the world when we cheerfully accept our place, however lowly, and do sweetly and as well as we can the work which God gives us to do. It ought to impart zest to the humblest calling to know that it is the will of God for us, and that and not something else is our part in the Divine allotment of duty. There can be nothing greater in this world for any one than the doing of God’s will. We make the most of our life when we accept our own place and do well our own work. We work then with God, and we shall not fail either of His help or of His reward.
“If there be good in that I wrought,
Thy hand compelled it, Master–Thine.
Where I have failed to meet Thy thought,
I know, through Thee, the blame is mine.
“One instant’s toil to Thee denied
Stands all eternity’s offence;
Of what I did with Thee to guide,
To Thee, through Thee, be excellence.
“One stone the more swings to her place
In that dread temple of Thy worth;
It is enough that through Thy grace
I saw naught common on Thy earth.”
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