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To Every Man His Work

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Oct 6, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 40.

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“To Every Man His Work”

By L. A. S.

The world has work for those who are blessed with ability or good fortune; but God has work for all. He has left “to every man his work.” Every individual can find in the service of the Lord steady employment. The world has a place only for the best talent; in its merciless competition the man of inferior capabilities is crowded out. The world draws its “dead line” at thirty-five years of age, beyond which an individual finds most avenues of lucrative employment closed. But the divine Employer has a place for old and young, and to each he gives also just that place for which the individual is best fitted. Each one has an appointed place, a position and a work for which he is better fitted than any one else. There is something which each one can do for the Lord that no other can do as well.
People complain that in the world they are slighted, neglected, forgotten. But God does not forget, nor overlook. “I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me.” What a consolation to know, amid the difficulties and discouragements of this life, that we are remembered by the King of the universe, that he is ever ready to take us into his employ, to work with us and crown our feeble efforts with success, and to give us an abundant reward.
“He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal.” Surely we can make no greater mistake than to neglect the service of God. “Go ye also into the vineyard.”
L. A. S.