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Everyday Living
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“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to
try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice,
inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when His
glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.”
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Peter 4:12, 13
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In the full light of day, and in hearing of the music of other voices,
the caged bird will not sing the song that his master seeks to teach him.
He learns a snatch of this, a trill of that, but never a separate and entire
melody. But the master covers the cage, and places it where the bird
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will listen to the one song he is to sing. In the dark, he tries and tries
again to sing that song until it is learned, and he breaks forth in perfect
melody. Then the bird is brought forth, and ever after he can sing that
song in the light. Thus God deals with His children. He has a song to
teach us, and when we have learned it amid the shadows of affliction
we can sing it ever afterward.
God’s Choice in Our Lifework
Many are dissatisfied with their lifework. It may be that their sur-
roundings are uncongenial; their time is occupied with commonplace
work, when they think themselves capable of higher responsibilities;
often their efforts seem to them to be unappreciated or fruitless; their
future is uncertain.
Let us remember that while the work we have to do may not be
our choice, it is to be accepted as God’s choice for us.
Whether pleasing or unpleasing, we are to do the duty that lies
nearest. “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for
there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave,
whither thou goest.”
Ecclesiastes 9:10
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If the Lord desires us to bear a message to Nineveh, it will not be
as pleasing to Him for us to go to Joppa or to Capernaum. He has
reasons for sending us to the place toward which our feet have been
directed. At that very place there may be someone in need of the help
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we can give. He who sent Philip to the Ethiopian councilor, Peter to
the Roman centurion, and the little Israelitish maiden to the help of
Naaman, the Syrian captain, sends men and women and youth today
as His representatives to those in need of divine help and guidance.