Do Your Best by J. W. Lowe

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 28, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 38.

Do Your Best

By J. W. Lowe

By J. W. LOWE

No person should feel satisfied with anything less than doing his very best. And he should do the highest class of work that he is capable of performing. Without having done his very best, and pursued the highest class of work of which he is capable, none can reasonably feel that he has performed his full duty.

Each individual should consider his God-given abilities as a sort of stock in trade, to be used to the extent of their capacity, to the end of bringing good to others, and glorifying his Maker.

Then, too, every human being should consider himself a steward of the mental and physical powers God has provided for use, and feel that he must use these powers to the honor and pleasure of the Giver.

All who have put forth the greatest effort of which they were capable, and pursued the highest calling they were qualified for, will be equally honored by their Creator, and will surely hear the “Well done” said to them.

Those who have not exercised their powers to their fullest capacity, and have not performed the most exalted work for which they had talents, will be regarded by their Creator as coming short of their full duty, and will even bring loss to themselves and others, which cannot be repaired throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity.