“Forget also thine own” (Ps. xlv. 10).
We, too, like the ancient Levites, must be “consecrated every one upon our
son and upon our brother,” and “forget our kindred and our father’s house”
in every sense in which they could hinder our full liberty and service for
the Lord. We, too, must let our business go if it stands between us and
the Lord, and in any case let it henceforth be His business and His alone,
pursued for Him, controlled by Him, and its profits wholly dedicated to
Him, and used as He shall direct. And, like James and John, you must be
willing to give up “the hired servants” too. It will make a great
difference in your way of living. It will be a change to give up your ease
and luxury, your being waited upon and indulged in every wish, and have to
do your own work, to give up the attentions of others, to put with
privations, and inconveniences, and humiliations, but it will be easy to
do it with Him. He never owned a foot of land. He never rode in a
carriage. He never had a hired servant. He lay down at last in a borrowed
grave. But He is rich enough now, and so will you be some day if you can
only be willing to suffer and to wait.