The great part of every life is made up of duty. While we certainly experience many delights and enjoy many distractions, there is more of duty to life than anything else. The God who creates and calls us also assigns to us many obligations, many responsibilities, many tasks and assignments. The great majority of what we do in a day and in a lifetime is the fulfillment of duty.
Even the best of jobs and the most satisfying of vocations demand close attention to duty. The pastor must dutifully prepare sermons, plan services, visit parishioners, petition God in prayer. The controlling question for his ministry is not “What do I want to do?” but “What must I do?” To be faithful in his calling he must be dutiful in it. And his duty does not end in his ministry, for he has duties to his wife and children, to his friends and neighbors, to his home and property. He lives a worthy life when he faithfully considers his obligations to each of these groups, his obligations within each of these spheres, then fulfills them with diligence.
What is true of the pastor is true of the electrician,
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