“Know your job and stick to it.” Ponder this. It involves more than you might, at first sight, imagine. The first thing is to know your job. Many err here. They do not seem to know well what to be at. They run from one job to another, and, as a consequence, do not succeed at anything. Seek, therefore, to know, in communion with the Master, what your work really is. It may be very humble, unpretending, unattractive sort of work; but no matter if it be your work, that is all you want to know. And what then? Why stick to it — keep at it — let no one jostle you out of it. You may meet many who will not like your mode of doing your work — many perhaps who think you ought to be at something else. But keep on, never minding. Be kind and courteous; but stick to your job. As a workman, your immediate, your paramount business is with your Master, not with your fellow servants. You may be misunderstood and misrepresented; but see that you stick to your job. Seek to do the best you can, and when the Master returns, you will be all right.
THREE THINGS WORTH REMEMBERING.
1. The nearest way to a man’s heart is round by heaven.
2. The best place for quarrelers to meet is in the dust.
3. The next best place to being with Christ, in the glory, above, is to be with Him, in the gutter, below.
AN IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE.
It is the energy of attaining, and not the measure of attainment, that constitutes the ground of communion. If this be lost sight of, the Church will be broken up into cliques, instead of all seeking to press on together.
THE MORAL SECURITY OF A LOWLY PATH.
How one does long to know more of this! “God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble” What a difference between the two attitudes! God must resist the proud; but when man takes his true place, God has nothing to resist; every barrier is removed, and the full tide of divine goodness can flow into the lowly heart. God can dwell with, a lowly heart. There may be great weakness, great poverty, nothing attractive; but God can dwell there, and that is enough. It is a great point to be able to ascertain what God can go along with. He certainly cannot go on with pride, with assumption, with pretension, with bustling self-importance. Whenever you see these things in a man, you may be quite sure God is not dwelling with him. I am not speaking of salvation, but merely of the precious privilege of having God making His abode with me. It is this which constitutes the moral security of a lowly path. Oh! that we may know it in this day of human pretension!