LIVING AT OUR BEST by F. B. Meyer

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 6, 1896

LIVING AT OUR BEST.

By F. B. Meyer

Do not try to do a great thing; you may waste all your life waiting for the opportunity, which may never come. But since little things are always claiming your attention, do them as they come, from a great motive, for the glory of God, to win his smile and approval, and to do good to men. It is harder to plod on in obscurity, acting thus, than to stand on the high places of the field, within the view of all, and to do deeds of valor at which rival armies stand still to gaze. But no such act goes without the swift recognition and the ultimate recompense of Christ. To fulfill faithfully the duties of your station; to use to the uttermost the gifts of your ministry; to bear chafing annoyances and trivial irritations as martyrs bore the pillory and stake; to find the one noble trait in people that try to molest you; to put the kindest construction on unkind acts and words; to love with the love of God even the unthankful and evil, to be content to be a fountain in the midst of a wild valley of stones, nourishing a few lichens and wild flowers, or now and again a thirsty sheep; and to do this always, and not for the praise of man, but for the sake of God—this makes a great life.—F. B. Meyer.