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Chapter 10 |
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Or our part in serving may often be to wait. There are times when we can do nothing more. The voice which has been wont to say, “Go and labor,” is heard saying, “Lie still and wait.” Then quiet, submissive, unmurmuring patience pleases Christ just as well as ever did the most intense activities in other days.
Or it may be in suffering that we are called to serve. There come occasions in the life of each one of us when the best thing for us is darkness and pain, when we can do most for the cause of Christ by suffering for his sake. In such cases the secret of service lies in joyful resignation, asking
“What would God have this sorrow do for me?
What is its mission? What its great design?
What golden fruit lies hidden in its husk?
How shall it nurse my virtue, nerve my will,
Chasten my passions, purify my love,
And make me in some goodly sense like him
Who bore the cross of sorrow while he lived
And hung and bled upon it when he died,
And now in glory wears the victor’s crown?”
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