“Not mine high place and power,
But humble task,
And duty done each hour,
Is all I ask.
“To be myself so strong
I shall not need
To do another wrong
By word or deed.
“To know the quiet heart,
The happy mind,
That come to one whose part
Is to be kind.”
Some people seem to miss altogether the thought of bringing Christ into their common, everyday life. When a Christian young man was talking about what calling he would choose, expressing much uncertainty and perplexity on the subject, he was asked if he had prayed about it. He was astonished and said he could not think of troubling the Lord with such a matter as that. There are many good people who have the same thought. They suppose that God is interested only in their spiritual affairs and not their secular matters.
But that is not the true thought of God’s care for us. He is interested in everything that concerns us. There is nothing in all the range of our life which we may not bring to Him. There are none of our affairs in which religion does not have is place. We may make the most common things of business as beautiful and as holy as a prayer.
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