“How ye ought to walk and please God” (I. Thess. iv. 1).
How many dear Christians are in the place that the Lord has appointed
them, and yet the devil is harassing their lives with a vague sense of not
quite pleasing the Lord. Could they just settle down in the place that God
has assigned them and fill it sweetly and lovingly for Him there would be
more joy in their hearts and more power in their lives. God wants us all
in various places, and the secret of accomplishing the most for Him is to
recognize our places from Him and our service in it as pleasing Him. In
the great factory and machine there is a place for the smallest screw and
rivet as well as the great driving wheel and piston, and so God has His
little screws whose business is simply to stay where He puts them and to
believe that He wants them there and is making the most of their lives in
the little spaces that they fill for Him.
There is something all can do,
Tho’ you’re neither wise nor strong;
You can be a helper true,
You can stand when friends are few,
Some lone heart has need of you,
You can help along.