“A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in a
little thing is a great thing.” --Hudson Taylor
"It has come home to me every forcibly of late that it
matters little what the work is in which we are engaged, so long as God has put
it into our hands. The temptation I have
often had to contend with is persistent in many forms. ‘If only I were in such and such a position’,
for example, ‘shouldn’t I be able to do a great work…it is all IF and
WHEN. I believe the devil is fond of
thee conjunctions…the plain truth is that the Scriptures never teach us to wait
for opportunities of service, but to serve in just the things that lie next to
our hands…the Lord bids us work, watch, and pray; but Satan suggests, wait
until a good opportunity for working, watching and praying presents itself—and needless
to say, this opportunity is always in the future…since the things that lie in
our immediate path have been ordered by God, who shall say that one kind of
work is more important and sacred than another?"
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