The Lord calls many of us to live humble and quiet lives, lives that are lived far more in the mundane than in the spotlight. And truly, even the most exceptional of men and women still spend most of their time in obscurity, laboring in secret, carrying out their tasks far from human eyes. But this does not at all mean that our lives are wasted or that we are failing to meet God’s expectations for us. F.B. Meyer explains well in this brief excerpt from his works.
The clue to life’s aims; the philosopher’s stone which will turn everything into gold; the secret of a blessed, useful life is to be found much rather in what we are, than in what we do.
The Beatitudes with which our Lord opened the great program of Christianity all turn upon character rather than upon action, and the blessedness which He promises is to the meek, the pure in heart, the peacemaker.
The true policy of life, therefore, is to stay just where we are; to believe that to be what and where we are is God’s will for us; and to endeavor to be the noblest, sweetest, purest, strongest
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