Just Where We Are by Geo. D. Gelwicks

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 23, 1902

Just Where We Are

By Geo. D. Gelwicks

It is somewhat difficult for us to realize that the very best place for us in life, the place where we can render the most acceptable service to our Lord, is just where we are.

We must conclude that this is true when we remember that it was not by chance that we were placed in the world. The Lord could have placed us in the very position that we would choose for ourselves if he had seen fit to do so. But “knowing our frame,” he knew where we were most needed.

Is it not a helpful thought that just here, right where we find ourselves, we can for the present best serve the Master? How it illuminates the most unattractive duties when we remember that by properly performing our humble, every-day tasks, we are serving him just as surely as is the man who is doing great and noble things for him.— Geo. D. Gelwicks, in New York Observer.