To Every Man His Work by Theodore Monod

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 41.

To Every Man His Work.

By Theodore Monod

REMEMBER, God gives a special mission to one and to another special work, and each is serving him. One he sends to active service abroad, another to evangelize at home, another he sends into his study to prepare works for the church. Think of the man who compiled the concordance of the Bible. Many thought, I suppose, that he spent too much time in writing, and yet how useful a work he was engaged in for the whole church. A man may not be working in our line, but he is all right if he is following Christ, who gives every man his work. Now don't let us be turning about to see what this man and that man is to do, and to find fault with them; but let us look to the Lord, to receive our orders from him, and from him only—'Follow thou me.' Then let us remember, he addresses the words to each of us, he addresses you, he addresses me; and, after all, each one will be called before God personally and individually. Not the church, not the nation, will appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, but you will. You will have to be judged as to your work by yourself. If you wait for others to do their duty before you do yours, you will wait forever. Fancy an army, when the commander would say, 'Forward, march!' and each of the soldiers was looking to the right and to the left, to see if all the others marched before he did himself.—Theodore Monod.