Finding One's Place

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 21, 1882

Finding One's Place.

A GOOD many people spend all their life hunting for the place in this world which they were intended to fill. They never settle down to anything with any sort of restful or contented feeling. What they are doing now is not by any means the work that is suited to their abilities. They have a sunny idea of a very noble life which they would like to reach, in which their powers would find free scope, and where they could make a very bright subject. But in their present position they cannot be much of anything, and there is little use to try. Their life is a humdrum and prosy routine, and they can accomplish nothing really worthy and beautiful. So they go on discontented with their own lot and sighing for another; and while they sigh, the years glide away, and soon they will come to an end, to find they have missed every opportunity of doing anything worthy of an immortal being in the passage to eternity. The truth is, one’s vocation is never some far-off possibility. It is always the simple round of duties that the passing hour brings. No day is commonplace if we only had eyes to see its splendor. There is no duty that comes to our hand but that brings to us the possibility of kingly service.—Sunday School Times.