ANSWER TO 'HOW TO KNOW OUR SPECIAL LINE OF SERVICE?'

ANSWER TO ‘HOW TO KNOW OUR SPECIAL LINE OF SERVICE?’

Walking with the Lord, doing to Him whatever your hand findeth to do, would doubtless disclose to you your calling ... I think the true way is to see that all your acts are done to the Lord; and as love is inventive, as well as suggestive, you will find, that as soon as you have brought one piece of wood (see Haggai 1: 8), there is, without pre-arrangement, an opportunity offered to you to go to the mountain again for another bit. I am afraid of any system in service. If you are full of love to Christ, you may rest assured that ways will open to you of expressing it, which you never could have reckoned on. But you must do everything in. this spirit - watching and waiting how you may ^[p. 253] accord with His heart, which you know has blessed and is blessing you; and if you walk thus, you will soon learn to say a word to the weary. You know how He has served and blessed yourself, and the more artlessly you tell it, the more likely is it that the Lord will bless it.

The first great thing to get fixed in the soul is that I am Christ’s. To get up in the morning with the sense of this, that I absolutely belong to Him, and to judge myself when I do not act as His, and for Him. I do not mean that you should be dissatisfied or doubtful, because you were not satisfied with your service, or because it was not something so decisive that you could speak of it and exhibit it. But I think your conscience ought to be satisfied that you are filling that place in the body of Christ where it has pleased God to set you.

Service is not to be estimated by the amount of injury which you could ward off by going right, or by that which you could inflict by going wrong, but by being in your appointed place. The more you walk in grace, the more must you take your right place; and therefore if you cannot find your place, the true way is to seek the Lord, and as you walk near Him, and are nurtured by His grace, so will you enter on the place He has appointed for you, and through the same grace keep it.