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found wanting”; and if you fail to fulfill your God-given obligations
your condemnation will be the same.
True Motives in Service
There are many who profess to be Christians who are not united
with Christ. Their daily life, their spirit, testifies that Christ is not
formed within, the hope of glory. They cannot be depended upon,
they cannot be trusted. They are anxious to reduce their service to the
minimum of effort, and at the same time exact the highest of wages.
The name “servant” applies to every man; for we are all servants, and
it will be well for us to see what mold we are taking on. Is it the mold
of unfaithfulness, or of fidelity?
Is it the disposition generally among servants to do as much as
possible? Is it not rather the prevalent fashion to slide through the
work as quickly, as easily, as possible, and obtain the wages at as little
cost to themselves as they can? The object is not to be as thorough
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as possible but to get the remuneration. Those who profess to be the
servants of Christ should not forget the injunction of the apostle Paul,
“Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not
with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing
God: and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not
unto men; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the
inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.”
Those who enter the work as “eye-servants,” will find that their
work cannot bear the inspection of men or of angels. The thing essen-
tial for successful work is a knowledge of Christ; for this knowledge
will give sound principles of right, impart a noble, unselfish spirit, like
that of our Saviour whom we profess to serve. Faithfulness, economy,
care-taking, thoroughness, should characterize all our work, wherever
we may be, whether in the kitchen, in the workshop, in the office
of publication, in the sanitarium, in the college, or wherever we are
stationed in the vineyard of the Lord. “He that is faithful in that which
is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is
unjust also in much.”—
The Review and Herald, September 22, 1891
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