"Say Fellows—" - Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues by Wade C. Smith
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daily seek are not sufficient to give us any real or permanent
satisfaction, and that we have a capacity for larger and better things. Oh, I don't suppose we can all be ministers and missionaries, though many of us may have that highest of all privileges, but we shall also find that a merchant's life can be so planned as to be a means of rich service to God; that a lawyer, after all, can be a force for Christ's kingdom; that an engineer can lay out his life-work so as to make straight the path and level the road for the King; that a school-teacher can use his influence to bring pupils to the Master Teacher; that a physician has peculiar opportunity to quicken the spiritual lives of his patients; and that any legitimate occupation can be made to serve man's chief end, which is "to glorify God and enjoy him forever." And when you and I catch and follow that vision of our life task, whatever it is, the whole plant changes, whether our job is in the shop or in the office, or on the farm or in the schoolroom or pulpit, because we have tasted of the power and fellowship of a Spirit-filled life and a God-used career. Listen, fellows, He stands now in the morning of life, on the shore of your little lake and calls you to a wonderful partnership! Let's follow Him! _Read Matthew 4:18-22._ |
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