Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Saturday June 27, 2020 |
Evening Time: 9:31 PM PST
"Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called." --1
Corinthians 7:20
Some persons have the foolish notion that the only way in which they can live
for God is by becoming ministers, missionaries, or Bible women. Alas! how many
would be shut out from any opportunity of magnifying the Most High if this were
the case. Beloved, it is not office, it is earnestness; it is not position, it
is grace which will enable us to glorify God. God is most surely glorified in
that cobbler's stall, where the godly worker, as he plies the awl, sings of the
Saviour's love, ay, glorified far more than in many a prebendal stall where
official religiousness performs its scanty duties. The name of Jesus is
glorified by the poor unlearned carter as he drives his horse, and blesses his
God, or speaks to his fellow labourer by the roadside, as much as by the popular
divine who, throughout the country, like Boanerges, is thundering out the
gospel. God is glorified by our serving Him in our proper vocations. Take care,
dear reader, that you do not forsake the path of duty by leaving your
occupation, and take care you do not dishonour your profession while in it.
Think little of yourselves, but do not think too little of your callings. Every
lawful trade may be sanctified by the gospel to noblest ends. Turn to the Bible,
and you will find the most menial forms of labour connected either with most
daring deeds of faith, or with persons whose lives have been illustrious for
holiness. Therefore be not discontented with your calling. Whatever God has made
your position, or your work, abide in that, unless you are quite sure that he
calls you to something else. Let your first care be to glorify God to the utmost
of your power where you are. Fill your present sphere to His praise, and if He
needs you in another He will show it you. This evening lay aside vexatious
ambition, and embrace peaceful content.
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