Not in Vain in the Lord
“We must not measure life by any earthly standard. There are lives the world crowns as successful but that Heaven rates as failures. And there are other lives some may pity, but, in God’s sight, are noble successes.
Earnest Christians bless others truly for Christ, but there may seem to be little result. Yet we do not know what good may come out of a true work that has at first appeared to fail.
‘Your labour is not in vain in the Lord.’ Results may not come immediately, but they will somewhere, sometime. Outside the mill, a waterwheel turns and seems to accomplish nothing. But inside, machinery makes flour to feed the hungry.
Our lives may seem, with all their activities, to produce no result, but who knows what blessings they shall become, what impressions they leave on other lives for eternity?”
Earnest Christians bless others truly for Christ, but there may seem to be little result. Yet we do not know what good may come out of a true work that has at first appeared to fail.
‘Your labour is not in vain in the Lord.’ Results may not come immediately, but they will somewhere, sometime. Outside the mill, a waterwheel turns and seems to accomplish nothing. But inside, machinery makes flour to feed the hungry.
Our lives may seem, with all their activities, to produce no result, but who knows what blessings they shall become, what impressions they leave on other lives for eternity?”
~J. R. Miller
