Measuring Our Opportunities
God is very good to us in sending opportunities. It is true that they are not the same opportunities as earlier were given, and too frequently they are less and less rewarding than those that have passed us by unheeded. But still we may do something; perhaps, in God’s grace, we may do much with the things that remain. That is a good promise to remember, “They shall still bring forth fruit in old age.” It is not a matter of despair that a man is old or that a church is poor. God’s measure is of qualities. We may find and grasp great opportunities, though we ourselves seem small and weak. But we must buy them up, first by attention, then by faith and faithfulness. The work of the Christian is cooperative. We may be sure that while we are working, God works, too.—The Congregationalist.