It is Christ’s work that you are doing. He has entrusted it to you. You profess to love your Master. Are you really in earnest in your work for him?
It is a great work. Souls are committed to your trust; a work shared by God himself; a work for the promotion of which Christ died; in which angels are interested. Oh thou, who in God’s providence art called to work in the same field with prophets, apostles, and martyrs, with the angels, with Jesus, with the Father himself—art thou in earnest?
The time is short. Your own life is uncertain. The golden opportunity is fleeing. “The night cometh.” Are you in earnest?
Fellow-laborer, face your own conscience, and, remembering that God is looking on your work, ask yourself the question: “Am I in earnest?” “Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.”