Every Disciple Has His Own Work
EVERY disciple of Jesus has his own personality, his own work, and his own record of character and service. He will never be so merged in the mass of Christian workers that his Master will lose sight of him as he is, and as he does, individually. Even in the largest church and in the largest Sunday-school every member has a name, and an identity, and a sphere which belongs to no one else, and which no one else can ever possess. Another may have a name, an identity, and a sphere, which is just like that, but it is not the same. And so it will be eternally. To every child of God, God's word stands assuringly: "I have called thee by thy name," "thou art mine." There is no more danger that any one of us shall be forgotten, or neglected, or overburdened, than if there were no other object of God's special loving care and ministry in all the universe. A mother may forget the child she has borne; but God will never forget the child who bears his name.—Selected.