Chapter 20—General Principles Governing Worker
Remuneration
Satisfaction and Blessing in Sacrificial Labor
Those who have the cause of God at heart, must realize that they
are not working for themselves or for the small wage they may be
receiving, and that God can make the little they do receive go farther
than they think it can. He will give them satisfaction and blessing as
they go forward in self-sacrificing labor. And He will bless every one
of us as we labor in the meekness of Christ. And when I see some
seeking for higher wages, I say to myself, “They are losing a precious
blessing.” I know this to be a fact. I have seen it worked out again and
again.
Now, brethren, let us take hold and do the very best that we possibly
can, without asking for higher wages except as we find that it is an
impossibility to do the work given us without more; but even then
let others see this necessity as well as ourselves, for God puts it into
their heart to see it, and they will speak the word that will have more
influence than for us to speak a thousand words. They will speak
words that will give us a proper standing before the people. The Lord
is our helper and God, our front guard and our rearward.
As we bring ourselves into right relationship with God, we shall
have success wherever we go; and it is success that we want, not
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money—living success, and God will give it to us because He knows
all about our self-denial. He knows every sacrifice that we make. You
may think that your self-denial does not make any difference, that you
ought to have more consideration and so on. But it makes a great
difference with the Lord. Over and over again I have been shown that
when individuals begin to reach out after higher and still higher wages,
something comes into their experience that places them where they
stand no longer on vantage ground. But when they take the wage that
carries on the face of it the fact that they are self-sacrificing, the Lord
sees their self-denial and He gives them success and victory. This
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